I have been employed as a reserve delivery worker for two years at South Shields delivery office, north east England.
About 150 people protested at Cornton Vale women’s prison near Stirling last Saturday to mark International Women’s Day. Demonstrators chanted, "Being poor is not a crime — too many women doing time!"
Members of the Unison union have voted to re-elect Dave Prentis as their general secretary. Prentis won 76 percent of the vote. The two left wing challengers for the leadership, Jon Rogers and Roger Bannister, won 8 and 17 percent of the vote respectively.
Over 140 council tenants, councillors, council officers and trade unionists from 29 different areas around the country came to parliament on Tuesday of last week to take part in an inquiry organised by the House of Commons council housing group. MPs heard evidence from 19 areas of the country covering a wide range of issues.
There were many telling moments after South Africa’s first democratic election. I’d like to touch on one which I think is relevant to the changes being made to our country’s law.
"Iraqi culture is being crushed under the tracks of US tanks," says Dahr Jamail, one of the few independent journalists reporting from occupied Iraq. He is clear what is happening there.
"It’s the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease," as Malcolm X said. All over the country, and in fact all over the world, people are waking up to the horrors being perpetrated by the tyrants of power and authority.
There is a growing fear that US policies in the Middle East are stoking up sectarian tensions in Lebanon, and threatening a return to civil war. These fears have drawn people into the streets to protest against US interference in the country.
The US is attempting to interfere in Lebanon’s politics. The US has made no secret about its intentions for Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.
Official: children in Abu Ghraib The US army has been forced to admit that young children are being held at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the former commander of the jail where US troops tortured and photographed detainees, told investigators that one boy held at Abu Ghraib appeared to be just eight years old.
Leading public health experts from around the world have condemned the US and British governments’ refusal to count Iraqi war casualties as "wholly irresponsible".
Released Guantanamo detainee Martin Mubanga has given his backing Saturday’s demonstration against the occupation of Iraq.
