The headiness of 1990s globalisation has waned. But even though the global economy has slowed and resistance has surged up in the Middle East and elsewhere, the world’s comfortable classes peer hopefully into the coming decades.
Thousands of protesters joined three marches last Saturday in three small Shropshire towns to save hospitals.
The RMT union has called a conference to discuss working class political representation.
The strike by 19 caretakers in the Unison union at Huddersfield Technical College completed its tenth week of all out action with the outcome in the balance.
Another important T&G union official at Heathrow airport, Pat Breslin, was sacked by British Airways (BA) last week for allegedly organising the walkouts at the airport last August in solidarity with Gate Gourmet workers.
Component staff reject new shifts Workers at car component company Unipres in Washington, Tyneside, are balloting for industrial action over plans to introduce Saturday working.
Egyptian human rights groups have launched a campaign for justice for the dozens of Sudanese refugees who were killed after police attacked their camp outside UN offices in Cairo.
The dates for the fourth European Social Forum have been announced.
The bodies of eight Iraqis, including two children, were recovered from the rubble of this home in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji on 3 January. US warplanes bombed the house after claiming they had seen two resistance fighters enter, later admitting their error. Added to the human cost of the war are the economic costs. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said last week that they could exceed a trillion US dollars, enough to provide universal basic services across the world for ten years
Campaigners across Britain are organising for the important Defend Council Housing (DCH) lobby of parliament on Wednesday 8 February.
Pressure is mounting in east London against Tower Hamlets council’s disgraceful treatment of Eileen Short.
