Union leaders have called more action after the great success of last week’s pension strike by up to 1.5 million workers.
The US has been caught trying to lay the blame for a massacre of Iraqi civilians on the resistance. The revelations come as reports of two new attrocities have surfaced.
Tony Blair hopes he can ride out the storms of protest over the murderous war in Iraq. He hopes he can brush aside the resistance to the government’s plunder of workers’ pensions and the plans to make us all work longer.
The east London borough of Newham has for generations been a stronghold of the Labour Party.
Birmingham election launch Around 300 people attended a rally in the Sparkbrook mosque community centre in Birmingham last Saturday for the Respect election launch in the area.
Tuesday's mass strike in France went ahead because the protest movement against new labour laws for young people continued to grow throughout last week. It put mobilisation first, not a vain hope of successful talks with the government.
Last weekend many people feared that the trade unions delay in calling a general strike would be a serious blow. But more than 80 universities continue to be occcupied or heavily affected by strikes.
There is great empathy from the railway workers towards the students’ struggle. But at the start railway workers didn’t feel they had to join their struggle. People were supportive because they were parents or friends of some of the students involved.
France’s bosses, and the politicians that back them, have been trying to ram through such neo-liberal "reforms" for over a decade, but have faced continuous resistance from workers and the left.
Recent announcements of sweeping job losses have exposed a crisis at the heart of the NHS. They are a direct result of the free market policies being pushed by New Labour.
The campaign by staff and students at Leeds University to sack the racist lecturer Frank Ellis has scored a success. The university has suspended Ellis after racist and homophobic comments he made.
A national conference last Saturday brought together 250 opponents of New Labour's 2006 Education Act. Supported by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) with 12 other organisations, the conference saw vigorous discussion about why the act must be stopped.
