"We are in a major fight with a multinational that has made a decision to pull out of Britain."
The New Labour government is lurching from crisis to crisis. The war on Iraq and the disastrous occupation have bred deep dissatisfaction among millions of people.
"WE WERE told at 9am our office was destined for closure. Everybody thought, ‘Let’s walk,’ and so we did. About eight offices in Fife walked out, involving around 200 people and shutting some of the offices down."
MORE PRIVATISATION and further attacks on working people are what lie in store from a third term Labour government.
"THE ISRAELI government have put a restriction on me not to speak to the foreign media. But I am speaking. I have the right to express my views and demand my human rights."
IT WAS billed as his most "union friendly" speech since he became Labour leader ten years ago—and still it fell flat.
THE US occupation is losing its grip on Iraq—and it is lashing out with ever greater brutality in response. At least 110 Iraqis died at the hands of the US military last Sunday.
HUNDREDS attended a vigil in Swansea last Saturday for Kalan Kawa Karim, victim of a racist murder. The vigil was held at the site of the murder, outside a pub in the city centre.
US SOLDIERS in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul beat and stripped detainees, threatened them with sexual abuse and forced them to listen to ear-splitting music, according to Iraqi prisoners.
‘LABOUR FACES catastrophe at election, warn MPs". That was the headline in the Independent on Sunday last week. Last Saturday’s Daily Mirror, reporting the result of the Millwall by-election, also described Labour’s crisis.
"I’VE WORKED here 25 years. Now Ford want to take away everything we’ve gained." So said one Land Rover worker at the Solihull plant last week.
