THE SCALE of death caused by tsunamis would be greatly reduced if buildings were constructed differently. But housing for the poor is always done by the cheapest possible methods.
Speaking to a recent campaigners’ conference, the director of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals recalled how German chancellor Gerhard Schröder once dismissed a group of environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with the comment, "You are not exactly a mass movement." Why should small NGOs be of any concern to an elected chancellor in the comfort zone between elections?
ABOUT 50 Swansea people turned up at St Andrews Church in St Helen’s Road to leaflet with Unite Against Fascism on the Sunday before Christmas.
AT THE very moment David Blunkett was tendering his resignation at 10 Downing Street before Christmas, 50 Zimbabwean refugees and their supporters were angrily demonstrating outside.
RAPTUROUS celebrations broke out among students at Glasgow University at the end of term when they found out that Israeli political prisoner Mordechai Vanunu had topped the poll for the position of rector of the college.
COUNTERS WORKERS struck in almost 300 post offices across Britain on Christmas Eve.
IT’S 6am on New Year’s Eve morning in Longsight, Manchester, and three Amicus union members are stoking the picket brazier at the Alstom rail maintenance depot.
THE FUTURE of the four month long all-out strike by social workers in Liverpool’s children and families team was hanging in the balance as Socialist Worker went to press this week.
THE NEXT 12 months will be very important for the PCS civil service workers’ union. The government is planning to push through 104,000 job cuts in the civil service and attack workers’ pensions.
TUBE DRIVERS in the Aslef union at the Arnos Grove depot won better treatment for a colleague by striking for 24 hours on Christmas Eve.
OVER 400 activists from around the world gathered for an anti-war assembly in Hyderabad, India, at the end of last year.
