Workers in the Unison union at NHS Logistics, the not for profit body that supplies hospitals across the NHS, are planning to ballot for strike action.
Gate protests against job cuts took place at Southport and Ormskirk hospital in north west England last week.
Firefighters’ new battles over cuts Merseyside firefighters are to hold a strike ballot over the fire authority’s plans to axe 120 frontline firefighters, 15 emergency fire control operator posts and four night time fire engines.
A report from the authoritative Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has confirmed many of the criticisms put forward by Socialist Worker when the government’s pension "reforms" were published earlier this year.
Two strikes last week pitted low paid health workers against managers driving through New Labour’s policies for the NHS.
Disney’s new movie Cars portrays a world inhabited by sentient cars. It tells the "heart-warming" story of how young racer Lightning McQueen is pulled for dangerous driving and stuck in a Kansas backwater.
George Bush has given Israel the green light to tear Lebanon asunder and to destroy the resistance forces of Hizbollah. By Tuesday, Israeli forces had killed some 400 people, the vast majority civilians, and driven up to one million Lebanese from their homes.
If the resistance loses here in Lebanon it will set back all the opposition movements in all the Arab countries.
The US and Israel claim that Hizbollah is a "terrorist" group. In fact Hizbollah is a Shia Muslim resistance movement that grew out of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s.
The Palestinian people are continuing to resist Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip. Israel has placed Gaza under siege since Palestinian groups took an Israeli soldier hostage late last month.
The Israeli assault is not just taking place in the Gaza Strip. Abedwahab Sabbah, a Palestinian activist in the West Bank, writes, "In the past three months Israel has continued its policy of assassinating Palestinian leaders.
Around the world people are disgusted by the bias in the mainstream media’s coverage of the Middle East. Many are turning to the Internet for truthful accounts and analysis of events. Socialist Worker rounds up some highlights.
