THE NATIONAL ballot of AUT union members continues into its second week against a background of the debate over fees for higher education. The AUT backed the NUS students' union in its opposition to fees, and the NUS is backing the AUT pay claim.
WORKERS AT Stagecoach buses in Worthing, near Brighton, were set to strike on Friday of this week for better pay.
AROUND 700 people marched through the centre of Worthing, West Sussex, on Saturday in protest at the threatened closure of the town's only public swimming baths.
WE’VE NOT seen the like of Hutton’s PR job for Tony Blair since Lord Widgery’s cover-up of the Bloody Sunday shootings 32 years ago. Back then Brian Hutton was barrister for the British army, which got away with killing 14 peaceful demonstrators in Northern Ireland.
Blair's a war criminal, fees will wreck education, but Labour MPs run for cover. "Working class people, including trade unionists, anti-war campaigners, pensioners and students, all desperately require a political voice.
Only friends of US will get a vote in Iraq BUSH AND Blair claimed their war on Iraq was a fight for democracy. Yet the US won't allow free elections to take place in Iraq.
Tom Hurndall, the British peace activist who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier in April last year, died last week.
A new coalition, with the proposed name Respect, has begun holding rallies to raise the profile of this important left alternative to New Labour.
