IS ONE of the world’s most powerful manipulators of people’s minds a crook and a thief?
Directors of Hollinger International include US war criminal Henry Kissinger and "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle, one of Bush’s most vicious advisers.
Other big newspaper proprietors are stalking the Telegraph. None of those in the running to take over the paper will do anything to increase "diversity" or "choice" in the press.
TRADE UNIONISTS have a marvellous chance to come together to discuss and debate the crisis of political representation a few weeks after Christmas.
WE HAVE a poster in our shop window: "Books not bombs—weapons of mass instruction".
The government's 3.5 percent pay offer to teachers is an insult. The figure comes from the School Teachers Pay Review Body which is stuffed with government appointees. The extra money will be more than swallowed up by inflation and higher mortgage rates, which Gordon Brown has hinted will go up again. The pay rise will not reverse the chronic shortage of teachers in some subjects. And local education authorities are already warning they do not have enough money to fund the pay rise without making cuts. Education secretary David Blunkett hopes the pay offer will buy time to introduce performance related pay for teachers. But even the Confederation of British Industry has attacked this sch
Four socialist members of the Scottish parliament have been suspended from the chamber for protesting in support of the right to demonstrate outside the G8 summit in Gleneagles.
EVEN EXPERIENCED protesters were amazed by the size and atmosphere of Thursday's magnificent protest. Thousands poured into the capital from all over Britain, from Aberdeen in northern Scotland to Plymouth in the south, and joined hundreds of thousands more Londoners.
LOCAL DEMONSTRATIONS took place across the country on Wednesday. Here are some of the reports our readers sent in to Socialist Worker.
