The campaign to free Babar Ahmad hit a setback on Tuesday of this week when a judge ruled in favour of his extradition to the US. His lawyers plan a high court appeal against the decision.
Ken Coates former Labour Party MEP
In Scotland Labour lost 500,000 votes, taking its lowest share of the vote since 1945. This suggests it is in terminal decline.
The fascist British National Party (BNP) did not enter the general election expecting to win a parliamentary seat. But it did hope to increase its share of the vote in a number of areas, building a base for next year’s local elections.
Around 11,000 HSBC bank workers were expecting the result of a strike ballot over pay as Socialist Worker went to press.
About 30 workers at the Ambala Food sweet factory in Stratford, east London, staged a third one-day strike against low pay on Friday of last week.
More than 60 engineers who look after domestic gas equipment in London staged a one-day strike on Monday of last week.
The threat of a strike ballot by 900 workers at Grampian Foods meat processing firm has forced bosses to back down over threats to axe their final salary pension scheme by the end of the month.
More than 300 shopfloor workers at the Norgren pneumatic components factory in Lichfield, Staffordshire, began four days of strike action on Thursday of last week.
Buses stop as pay fight continues Workers at Centra Buses struck for 24 hours on Monday of this week in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Following our recent resounding vote for strike action, and action short of a strike, members of the Natfhe lecturers union at London Metropolitan are set to strike on Monday to Friday of next week.
In 1999, when Dritan Dauti was 14, Serbian soldiers destroyed his village in Kosovo. He was separated from his family and, after living in a refugee camp in Macedonia, he managed to get to England where he was put in the care of his brother.
