Scottish Power workers have won a very important battle over pensions – and shown how union organisation and the threat of strikes can overturn the settled will of a multinational firm.
The people of Basra and Baghdad will be joining next month’s global protest against the US and British occupation of Iraq.
Much has been made in the mainstream media of the alleged threat to freedom of expression posed by "Muslim extremism". But the real threat to artistic freedom is coming not from Muslims, but from the government’s repressive anti-terror legislation.
Students from across the country will be heading to London next Wednesday for a national lobby of parliament called by the National Union of Students (NUS), followed by a demonstration.
Any day now a new education bill will be put before parliament. The government’s White Paper, published in preparation for the bill, has sent shockwaves through Labour ranks, largely through its bogus emphasis on "choice" and "diversity".
Around 200,000 more people face "fuel poverty" after British Gas announced price rises of 22 percent this week. On average, households will face an annual energy bill of over £1,000.
Tony Blair wants 40 percent of acute operations performed by private companies to be paid for by the NHS by 2008.
Some 20,000 protesters filled Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday of last week for a rally against Islamophobia and incitement. The event was called at short notice by the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and others in the wake of the cartoons row.
"Condoleezza Rice is a liar. The US secretary of state blamed Iran and Syria for inciting violence over Danish caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.
Paper vendors strike in Graz Sixty two street vendors of the Kleine Zeitung newspaper in Graz, Austria, went on strike on Monday of last week after a paper reprinted the offensive caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. For days they had tried to convince the editors that they should avoid such an offensive act.
I was a Labour Party member for many years and I always used to tell people to vote Labour. I quite liked John Smith and would describe myself as Old Labour.
