Dave Ward has decided to stand down as the CWU union’s representative on the Labour Party national executive committee (NEC) because he believes it conflicts with the best interests of union members.
The Solidarity campaign for Thursday's Scottish parliament elections struck a chord with working class people across the country. Candidates and members report receiving a great response everywhere.
Thursday's elections took place before Socialist Worker went to press but look likely to mark a sea change in Scotland. Labour is set to lose ground to the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Some 250,000 civil service workers in the PCS union struck on May Day against job cuts, low pay and privatisation.
Across Britain workers joined May Day marches on Tuesday or took the chance to hold protests in their own workplaces.
Last Wednesday George Galloway came to Scotland to back Solidarity, taking time out from Respect's council campaign in England to lend his support.
Royal Mail workers are pushing for a strike ballot over pay cuts.
The likelihood of a summer of discontent in the health service increased last week as the NHS Pay Negotiating Council (PNC) – which sets wages for over 300,000 non-clinical staff like porters, cleaners and cooks – announced the same 1.9 percent "pay rise" that has been offered to clinical staff.
Baha Musa, an Iraqi hotel worker, died with 93 separate injuries to his body as a result of severe beatings he received while detained by British troops in Basra.
The war is lost. That's the message coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan by those sent to fight it.
Gordon Brown, Tony Blair's proposed successor, gave "Blair's decade of achievement" in government "ten out of ten" in the Sun on Tuesday.
April has been a bloody month for British troops in Iraq. Twelve soldiers have been killed and scores wounded – the highest monthly figure since the invasion four years ago.
