Over 3,000 people protested last Saturday against plans to expand Heathrow airport. A proposed third runway will mean 4,000 homes being demolished, including the entire village of Sipson.
Following New Labour’s disastrous election results on 1 May, the Neath Labour MP and former cabinet minister Peter Hain has written a pamphlet, Changing Wales: Changing Welsh Labour.
Privatisation: ‘Postcomm should be scrapped’ In January 2006, the postal industry was opened up by the regulator Postcomm to full competition from private firms.
The CWU union conference, which is to take place in Liverpool next week, is likely to be a watershed.
Around 7,000 further education lecturers in the UCU union in London are set to strike on Monday of next week in the next stage of the battle against Gordon Brown’s public sector pay limit.
Gordon Brown is attacking workers’ living standards while asking the unions to bail out the Labour Party. The rich backers who lent the party money now want it back.
High profile health trade unionist Yunus Bakhsh could be sacked this week after health bosses decided to press ahead with a disciplinary hearing against him – despite Yunus not being well enough to attend.
World leaders were meeting at the United Nations world food summit in Rome as Socialist Worker went to press.
A proposed new history GCSE syllabus could force students to accept the government’s point of view on contentious issues such as terrorism and the Middle East conflict.
The harrowing story of Rizwaan Sabir – a postgraduate student studying terrorism who was arrested for downloading an Al Qaida training manual – is testimony to the Islamaphobia that has been whipped up by politicians and the media.
Gordon Brown came up with a wonderful Blairite and Orwellian phrase this week saying he wants "to protect the security of all and the liberties of each" by extending detention for terrorist suspects to 42 days.
The crisis racked New Labour government is whipping up terror scares in an effort to divert attention away from its own problems.
