Shock, bitterness and anger spread across West Midlands at the news of the plan to close the Peugeot plant in Ryton, Coventry, in 2007. The closure would mean the loss of 2,300 jobs.
With oil prices above $70 a barrel, could biofuels help to solve our energy crisis and reduce climate change at the same time? From George Bush to the European Union (EU), governments around the world seem to think so – and are beginning to subsidise the new biofuel revolution.
The anger among health workers over mounting job losses and creeping privatisation in the NHS has the potential to spill over into industrial action.
Some 85,000 civil service workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week over government attacks on jobs, services and conditions.
Marilyn Boyle has been waiting 20 years for a transfer from her house. It’s been slowly subsiding into the garages underneath and, 17 years ago, when she was eight and a half months pregnant, Marilyn fell through the rotting kitchen floor.
Carole Swords is one of Tower Hamlets’ leading housing campaigners. She is standing for Respect in Bow West along with Deeka Adan and Robin Hirsch.
Some politicians say "there’s no alternative" because they can’t think of one. That’s what the establishment parties in Tower Hamlets say about housing.
Over 50 military families were set to lay a wreath at Downing Street on Wednesday of this week to show their anger at the war in Iraq and at Tony Blair’s refusal to meet with the families of soldiers killed in Iraq.
The print edition of this week's paper carries pages of May Day greetings. This will be available to download for two or three months from the website in the PDF edition of the paper
Three Respect candidates in Tower Hamlets, east London, won a court victory against the council today overturning a decision to exclude them from the ballot paper on technical grounds.
Labour minister Margaret Hodge said last Sunday that all the political parties have abandoned the white working class.
An RAF doctor who refused to serve in Iraq because he believes the war is illegal was sentenced to eight months in jail and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs last week.
