AN ENTIRE battalion of 653 South Carolina National Guard soldiers has been placed under disciplinary lockdown after revolting against orders to go to Iraq.
‘This is far graver than Vietnam. There wasn’t as much at stake strategically there, though in both cases we mindlessly went ahead with a war that was not constructive for US aims.
A STUNNING victory by 240 steel erectors at the Wembley Stadium site could open the door to further advances across the construction industry.
ONE MONDAY morning I got a call asking if I could get a story and picture for Socialist Worker about the Wembley construction workers who had just been sacked.
Staff hacked off at college cuts STAFF AT Hackney Community College in east London are facing the threat of a devastating level of redundancies.
THE BATTLE to defend council housing is gathering ground following a successful fringe meeting at the TUC conference last week.
PLEAS AT last week’s TUC conference to rally behind Labour could not hide the gulf between the unions and the government.
SOME 110 civil service workers in the PCS union at Stratford social security office in east London were set to begin a ballot for indefinite strike action on Wednesday of this week.
THE ALL-OUT strike by Swansea IT workers in the Unison union is now in its sixth week. They are protesting against the Liberal Democrat dominated council’s outsourcing plans.
