READING THE Daily Mirror’s front page article on New Labour’s drugs policy, "We Are Losing The War On Drugs", on Monday made my blood boil.
WHETHER IT’S the future of your neighbourhood, local school or hospital, the person wheeled out by the government or your local council to tell you what to think will be some business figure or a jumped-up college kid from a free market think-tank.
THE RECENT highly successful strike by 265,000 members of the PCS union against cuts to jobs, sick pay and pensions shocked the government.
TAXI DRIVERS in the TGWU union in Watford looked set for victory this week.
Brewery workers at Boddington’s in Manchester struck last week for three days.
THE THREAT of a postal strike in London over Christmas has won a vastly improved deal which will have implications for all future agreements.
DRIVERS AT parcel distribution company Lynx were due to hold a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week over pay and hours. The workers, who are in the TGWU union, have already held two 24-hour strikes.
Oliur Rahman was elected as Respect councillor for the St Dunstan’s & Stepney ward of Tower Hamlets council in east London on 29 July.
Brighton and Hove TEACHING ASSISTANTS in schools in Brighton and Hove have rejected an employers’ offer and voted to press ahead with a two-day strike against low pay.
THE "LIBERATION" of Fallujah has been an indiscriminate killing spree by US forces. Wounded prisoners have been executed in cold blood, while fleeing civilians have been shot dead.
