The government is proposing legalised robbery of the pensions of firefighters and emergency control room staff.
NHS pensions agency Over 200 members of the PCS civil service union working at the NHS Pensions Agency in Fleetwood, Lancashire, struck solidly on Friday of last week against the government’s plans to privatise the agency.
Over 100 people attended a vigil at Stockwell tube, south London, last Sunday to mark six months since the shooting by police of Brazilian Jean Charles De Menezes. Family members made moving speeches remembering Jean’s life. The Independent Police Complaints Commission have now finished their report into the anti-terrorist operation that saw Jean killed. They have passed their findings to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Family members urged that the CPS should move rapidly to prosecute the police involved in the shooting.
Activists across Britain are stepping up their campaign against New Labour’s plans to increase the use of waste incinerators. These incinerators will lead to more pollution.
Doctor Gerard Reissmann is a GP working in Newcastle. He spoke to Socialist Worker about the government’s plans to financially reward GPs who get patients who receive incapacity benefits back to work.
Over 90,000 civil service workers in the PCS union working in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week. They are protesting against New Labour’s plans to cut 30,000 jobs in the DWP.
Our strike on Thursday and Friday is part of a crucial battle.
The opposition to Tony Blair’s education plan is growing. Last week a crammed meeting saw Tony Benn and Alastair Campbell in the audience as activists Fiona Miller and Melissa Benn launched their new pamphlet defending comprehensive education.
Beyond the tired and familiar "zero tolerance" rhetoric spouted by Blair’s ministers as a solution to deter any type of behaviour that is "less than ordinary", there are some important positive changes to prostitution management in the strategy announced recently.
At the final session of the World Social Forim in Caracas, Venezuela, on behalf of the Stop the War Coalition I made the call for a global day of protest against the occupation of Iraq and any further new wars on 18 March. This was the first activity agreed at the activist assembly of the World Social Forum which brought together more than 100,000 people representing social movements, trade unions and anti-war groups attending the Social Forum.
Over 90,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are set to strike on Thursday and Friday of next week in the first stage of a battle to defend jobs and services.
