Local council elections across much of England and Wales yesterday saw Labour’s worst electoral results for 40 years. The party polled just 24 percent of the vote and came in third, losing around 300 councillors.
Hundreds of thousands of workers across the world took part in celebrations and protests to mark International Workers’ Day on Thursday. The demands of the demonstrations were remarkably similar – no to privatisation, defence of public services and migrant workers, and higher wages to deal with the soaring price of food and fuel that is contributing to a decline in workers’ living standards the world over.
