SUPPORTERS OF the Anti Nazi League launched a leafleting campaign in Brislington, in Bristol, after the area was targeted by the Nazi BNP. The Nazis distributed their propaganda after a local meeting with BNP leader Griffin.
HOME SECRETARY David Blunkett has stooped to a new low with a disgusting attack on young Asian men in Bradford who have been given outrageously long prison sentences. He described them in a speech last week as "maniacs" who should stop "whining" about receiving jail terms of up to eight and half years.
THE GOVERNMENT has agreed a £410 million bailout for Britain's biggest electricity generator, which threatened to let its nuclear power plants go bankrupt last week. British Energy provides 25 percent of electricity in Britain. It said on Thursday of last week it faced bankruptcy. Only three weeks previously it had insisted there was "no financial crisis".
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FIREFIGHTERS AND control room staff are heading for their first national strikes for 25 years. They are at the forefront of a mood for action over pay across the public sector. Over 10,000 firefighters blockaded the streets outside parliament on Monday as their employers refused to come up with a reasonable pay offer at last ditch talks.
CAMPAIGNERS in the Stop the War Coalition are uniting with local groups to get transport from across Britain to the 28 September demonstration. A 640-seat train is running through Glasgow and Edinburgh to the march. A further five coaches are booked from Edinburgh, and transport is organised from Greenock, Fife, Aberdeen and Dundee. In Runcorn, in the north west of England, and Bristol the postal workers' CWU union is running its own coaches to the demonstration. In Cardiff the CWU union has given £200 to help fund transport from the area. Around 100 coaches are booked from Birmingham. Around £10,000 has been raised to pay for billboard and newspaper adverts in the ru
FORTY JOURNALISTS at EMAP Healthcare/PSM in London last week launched the first strike in national magazines for over a decade. The successful one-day action over pay follows a series of strikes by journalists in local and regional newspapers.
TORY-CONTROLLED Westminster council has thrown down a major challenge to the Unison public sector workers' union. It was trying to use anti-union laws, introduced by Margaret Thatcher's Tory governments but kept by New Labour, to stop our strike action against privatisation.
"ANOTHER WORLD is possible" was the feeling in the air last Saturday as a festival against privatisation, racism and war gathered on the grassy slopes by the sea in Whitstable, Kent. Hundreds came to listen to music from local bands and performers.
PARENTS AND children were subjected to disgusting intimidation last week as education managers forced through a nursery closure in Hackney, east London. Officials of the Learning Trust, which now runs education in the borough, believed that an occupation was planned at St John's nursery. On Thursday of last week they did everything possible to stop parents getting into the facility.
OVER 250 social workers in Leeds went on strike to demand higher wages on Wednesday of last week. The workers were demanding better pay rates and faster progression up the pay scale.
THE ANNUAL Burston school strike rally was held in Diss in Norfolk last Sunday. It celebrates Britain's longest school strike, which took place in 1914. Between 400 and 500 people attended the event. It was a bigger and younger audience than in previous years.
