NOWHERE IS New Labour’s hypocrisy over "choice" in public services clearer than over housing.
ENCOURAGING scabbing on this week’s strike is not the first time Ken Livingstone has attacked tube workers for fighting back.
THE RMT union has recruited an extra 3,000 members since it was expelled from the Labour Party in February of this year.
LONDON MAYOR Ken Livingstone wanted me to cross my union’s picket line and work during the tube strike this week.
‘PEOPLE DID not vote for Ken Livingstone for him to start coming out and attacking a major trade union.
THE LIARS who took us to war aim to perpetrate the biggest fraud yet next week. They want the world to believe that a "handover" of power in Iraq will take place on Wednesday.
THE 52,000-strong Fire Brigades Union has finally lost patience with this government and has voted to end its 86-year affiliation to Labour. That decision at the union's conference last week has sent shockwaves through the union movement.
The army AT LEAST 140,000 US troops will remain in Iraq after 30 June. Right wing US columnist Jed Babbin recently admitted, \"If they are not subjected to the law and authority of the new Iraq provisional government, how can they be anything other than an occupation force?\"
Kill and cover up TWO MISSILES fired by US warplanes killed 22 Iraqis in Fallujah last Saturday. Fallujah was the scene of fierce resistance to the occupation of Iraq earlier this year. US forces were forced to withdraw from the city and give control to the \"Fallujah brigade\" made up of Iraqi troops.
THE firefighters' FBU union struck a major blow against Tony Blair last week. It came just days after Labour suffered its worst election result since 1918. That was also the year the FBU affiliated to the Labour Party. The FBU ended that affiliation last week by 35,105 to 14,611 on a card vote.
FIREFIGHTERS AND control staff have picked themselves up from a year of knockbacks by voting for a fresh strike ballot over huge attacks on their conditions. Delegates to the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) conference in Southport last week voted by 27,349 to 24,353 against effectively caving in to the employers' demands.
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) held an extraordinary conference in Leeds last week to discuss reform of its democratic structures. It was attended by just over 300 delegates-a large proportion of whom were full time sabbatical officers. The conference was called against the backdrop of a severe financial crisis. The NUS has an annual budget deficit of £500,000.
