Official statistics show that average living standards are falling for the first time since Labour came to office in 1997.
The US engineering company Bechtel is leading the corporate withdrawal from Iraq. Despite much of the country’s infrastructure still being in ruins, US government funding for reconstruction is coming to an end.
Paul Garraway is a post worker in Oxford. His South Central number one CWU union branch has voted to donate £50 to the Socialist Worker appeal.
Council workers in Staffordshire left their offices in tears last week. They had received letters from their employers telling them they could face pay cuts of up to £10,000 a year.
Surrey police and the 'black' driver The Crown Prosecution Service has been ordered to prepare a report to explain to a judge why a black man was convicted of reversing up the M23 even though CCTV images showed the man originally arrested had been white.
Some 900 trade unionists, most of them delegates elected by union organisations, met last weekend to debate political representation and organising against employers’ attacks, and to launch a Workers Charter.
During the afternoon of the conference there was discussion over what sort of political representation the unions should have.
For more than a generation workers have faced an onslaught on their jobs, wages, conditions and trade union rights. Privatisation and deregulation have been implemented by both Conservative and New Labour governments. The early 21st century has seen a rebirth of radicalism on a global scale. Now is the time for trade unionists to rebuild their organisations and recommit themselves to defend working peoples’ livelihoods and rights.
Last week Tyrell Anderson was sentenced for the killing of his best friend Tommy Winston in January. The two teenagers had been friends since they were ten.
School students march in London Fifty school students took part in a die-in last Saturday to remember the dead of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Lebanon. This was during a weekend when the establishment picks and chooses which of the dead we are to remember.
The Unison union is preparing to ballot for industrial action at Gloucester City Council.
Three activists in Unison are facing disciplinary action from the union following a walkout in protest at Tony Blair’s speech to the TUC in September this year.
