The New Labour government has reacted to the economic crisis by lashing out at working people. The last week has seen a series of ministers mount attacks on parents, women and migrant workers.
Activists with the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) were to lobby parliament on Wednesday of this week to mark 100 years since the introduction of the state pension – and to demand a rise in the pitifully low current state pension rate. The lobby is backed by many trade unions and by the TUC.
Figures released last week showed that inflation hit a 16-year high in September.
More than one in four of Britain's biggest companies do not pay any corporation tax, and many are using tax avoidance measures to get round the rules.
Hundreds of workers lobbied Liverpool city council on Wednesday of last week in protest at planned job cuts.
The fascists were humiliated in Leeds last weekend after hundreds of young people turned out to block their attempts to whip up race hatred in the city.
A deal that would formalise the occupation of Iraq by the US and Britain has run aground – again.
Thousands of people in Britain are threatened with losing their homes and Gordon Brown is refusing to take any action to stop it.
Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at Nottingham Trent university struck on Tuesday of this week in protest at management threats to derecognise their union.
On 4 April next year the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) will celebrate its 60th anniversary. It pretends to be a defensive military alliance – but the recent conflict between Georgia and Russia shows the true purpose of Nato and why the peace movement must oppose its existence.
There will be jubilation in secondary schools at the announcement by schools secretary Ed Balls that Sats tests are to be scrapped with immediate effect. But there will be despair in primary schools where the tests are to be retained.
