BAGGAGE HANDLERS at Liverpool's John Lennon airport began a five-day strike on Monday.
ROYAL MAIL, a company that boasts of its equality and anti-racist polices, has appointed a leading British National Party member to a management position at Northampton's main sorting office.
THE RESULTS of the executive elections for the new Amicus union were still coming in as Socialist Worker went to press.
THE DISPUTE continues at Highbury Resource Centre (HRC) in north London. It is a day centre for adults with learning difficulties.
NEXT YEAR'S European Social Forum (ESF) will take place in Britain in October.
AROUND 100,000 civil servants in the PCS union are set to ballot to take strike action over their awful pay deal in January.
THE NATIONAL Assembly Against Racism wholeheartedly endorsed the new national coalition Unite Against Fascism at its annual general meeting last Saturday.
THE GREATEST mass movement of our age has brought us together. We have marched in unprecedented numbers against war, against racism and in defence of democracy and civil liberties. Our views are shared by millions, often a majority of the people in this country.
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A HEAD of steam is building up over creating a left electoral coalition to challenge New Labour at the polls next June. The speakers at a 1,300-strong meeting in London, which called for such a coalition, have now called a national convention to agree and launch it on 25 January next year.
US OCCUPATION military authorities told the world's press they had "killed 46" resistance fighters in the central Iraqi town of Samarra on Sunday.
OVER 600 people, mostly local Muslims, turned up to try and get into a packed meeting in Gloucester on Monday evening. Only 400 could fit into the hall.
