THE ELECTION for the new leader of Unison, Britain’s biggest public sector union, begins on Tuesday of next week. Jon Rogers is the United Left candidate for Unison general secretary. The debate in the elections will centre on the union’s relationship with New Labour.
ABOUT 100 local people came together in Woolwich, south east London, last Saturday to oppose a march through the area by the National Front (NF). Later that day the Nazi NF attempted to march near Green Street in Newham, east London.
FRIDAY 18 February is an important date for everyone who wants to fight against the attacks on our pensions.
FIFTEEN YEARS ago ambulance workers were in national dispute with Thatcher’s Tory government over low pay. It was an enormously popular dispute with opinion polls showing 80 percent of the public backing the ambulance workers.
Two weeks after the Indian Ocean tsunami, hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans are still suffering. But the corridors of power are buzzing with talk of commissions to be skimmed off reconstruction contracts.
The Asian tsunami hit the Indonesian province of Aceh the hardest, killing at least 80,000 people there. Yet in the midst of this humanitarian disaster, a sinister story is unfolding that has been barely discussed by the media. The Indonesian army is taking advantage of the calamity to escalate its repression of the Acehnese people, who have been fighting for independence since 1976.
ANTI-WAR activists from around the world are calling for delegates from the movements against the war and globalisation to go to the third Cairo conference called by the International Campaign against US aggression.
AS MANY as 19 Iraqi civilians were killed by US forces in just two incidents at the weekend. To the world’s media they remain nameless and faceless—another statistic in the mounting death toll of the occupation.
THE OCCUPATION forces in Iraq are to deploy Central American style death squads, under plans drawn up by the US.
A PACKED selection meeting last Sunday launched Respect’s election challenge across the four constituencies in east London where it got its best results in last June’s European and London elections.
In a BBC interview last Sunday, Tony Blair laid out his plans for a third term.
Respect councillor Michael Lavalette spoke to 13,000 football supporters at the Preston North End match last Saturday about the Asian tsunami and debt cancellation. Preston is holding a day of action over the tsunami disaster, set for Thursday of this week.
