Open class struggle is raging in South Africa.
Some 50,000 workers across the South African water industry walked out on strike on Monday of this week over pay.
Campaigners against "free schools" held a lively protest on Tuesday of this week outside football’s Premier League in central London.
The African National Congress (ANC) is the party of South Africa’s national liberation movement. It has governed since the end of apartheid.
Campaigners reacted with fury last week at Tory plans to scrap NHS Direct.
Disgraced Tory party donor Asil Nadir is back in Britain. He was the party’s largest individual donor during the 1980s.
Planning rules that require local councils to make land provisions for traveller communities are to be revoked by the Tory government.
A worker has been crushed to death in an incident involving a lorry at the Corus steel plant in Scunthorpe.
The Notting Hill Carnival passed off peacefully. More than a million people attended, but the best the police could manage was fewer than 200 arrests.
Socialist Worker is sad to announce the death of longstanding SWP member, author and Socialist Worker contributor Tom Behan.
Two million South African workers were set to stage a general strike on Thursday of this week, in support of 1.3 million public sector workers who have been striking for more than a fortnight.
AROUND 10,000 workers on London Underground are set to go into battle over jobs and safety when they strike for 24 hours from Monday of next week.
