PROTESTS BY locked out steel erectors at Wembley stadium continue to grow. Workers demonstrated outside the incomplete stadium last week holding a giant metal chain and padlock.
AROUND 50 protesters blockaded the entrance to a landfill at Path Head, Gateshead, last Saturday. Four truckloads of waste were turned away from the site.
SOME 150 social workers in the Unison union are continuing their indefinite strike action in Liverpool. We have been getting good support from Unison, branches and other unions such as the PCS and FBU.
POSTAL WORKERS at Peterborough’s Werrington sorting office walked out unofficially last week over the effects of Royal Mail’s new once a day delivery system.
NEW LABOUR immigration minister Des Browne MP was confronted by the human reality of his policies when the Aftab family stopped him at an integration conference in Manchester last week.
OVER 2,000 people attended a conference on black education held at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in London at the weekend.
MORE THAN 300 people marched through the small South Wales town of Pontypool last Friday to protest at the proposed closure of Trevethin Community School.
OVER 60 TGWU union members at the Soapworks factory in Easterhouse, Glasgow, entered their third week of strike action on Monday.
"THIS IS the biggest strike ballot in a generation, involving the whole of the civil service." With those fighting words Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS civil service workers’ union, announced a ballot of 290,000 members.
"I THINK what’s happening in Iraq is terrible. I don’t think any of the young ones should be there."
ROSE GENTLE, the mother of 19 year old Gordon Gentle who was killed in Basra in June of this year, was pictured outside 10 Downing Street having just left a meeting with the deputy prime minister in disgust.
SOME 500,000 demonstrators took to the streets against George Bush on Sunday of last week. Three activists sent us reports of the whole series of protests that took place.
