Amnesty International has just published a disturbing report on the plight of women in Iraq. The report reveals how sanctions, war and occupation have wiped out years of advances made by Iraqi women. Two years of war and occupation have driven women into the home, seen their jobs disappear and their rights eroded.
The decision of Postcomm to fully open the postal market to competition in 2006 is sadly predictable.
THE BOSS gets $17.5 million a year. The workers who clean his offices would have to slave for 1,647,446 hours to get that — 188 years, day and night!
Balloting is well underway across 1.25 million local and central government workers for strikes in defence of pensions, beginning in three weeks time.
Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker threatened with extradition to the US on "terrorism" charges, could face indefinite military detention if the extradition goes ahead, according to his lawyers.
Civil service workers in the Prospect and PCS unions at the National Museum of Science and Industry struck on Wednesday of last week. The strike is over pay and underfunding. Their action closed the Science Museum in London and disrupted the National Railway Museum in York and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford.
Anti-war actions took place across Britain on Tuesday of last week, the Stop the War Coalition’s day of action marking two years since 15 February 2003, the biggest anti-war march in British history. Keir McKechnie reports from Glasgow.
The threat from the fascist British National Party (BNP) has never been greater. They received over 800,000 votes in the European elections and over 90,000 votes in the London elections in 2004, representing the highest ever votes for a fascist party in Britain.
Make Poverty History About 200 people attended the launch of the Make Poverty History coalition in Sheffield on Wednesday of last week. There were speakers from Oxfam, Christian Aid and the World Development Movement (WDM), who spoke about the three strands to the campaign — debt, trade and aid.
On Friday of last week, thousands of people all over the country took part in rallies and demonstrations against the government’s plans to force millions of public sector workers to work for an extra five years before they can collect their full pension.
British ministers’ claims that they are leading the global fight against poverty will ring hollow unless the government changes policies which harm rather than help developing countries.
Thousands of public sector workers, like these in Southend, Essex, rallied in defence of pensions this week as part of the TUC’s day of action.
