The number of children living in poverty did show a slight drop in 1999-2000. But statisticians at the Department for Work and Pensions said the correct interpretation over the whole period would be "...
PRESSURE IS growing for strikes in key sections of South African industry. The miners' NUM union has started a strike ballot at five leading gold and coal companies. Workers in Eskom, the power utilit...
The intifada is against Israel's oppression of Palestinians. Israel has shot people in cold blood, and bombed and bulldozed Palestinian homes and buildings.A month ago Israel's right wing prime minist...
What worries bodies like the IMF-and the G8 leaders meeting in Genoa this weekend-is not the hardship hitting the people of such countries. It is that Western banks will not get the interest payments...
inside the system Coppers in pound fiasco THE METROPOLITAN Police have wasted millions of pounds paying for thousands of vehicles left in privatised car pounds. The company involved is Bells of Richmond. It has just gone bankrupt. The firm won a 225,000 a year contract to remove illegally parked vehicles on red routes, accident vehicles,...
So this week Bob Kiley, the chairman of London Transport, came under attack. Last year the London Transport board was specially "reshaped".These are the people who will have a crucial voice on whethe...
It reflected most people's abhorrence at the idea of segregation along racial lines. But it failed to explain either its extent or why it exists. The same message came from scores of white, Asian and...
STOP PRIVATISATION protest @ new labour's conference DEMONSTRATE SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER BRIGHTON Initial sponsors: Globalise Resistance; Green Party; Socialist Alliance; John Leech; Dave Toomer; Mark Ser...
The police shot two men dead in the street in four days. Officers shot Andrew Kernan, a schizophrenic man, twice in the chest near his home in Wavertree, Liverpool, on Thursday of last week. Scotland...
Bush wants to "fast track" Son of Star Wars after a recent test over the Pacific showed the missile defence might work. It would mean any missile fired at the US could be shot down. So the US could t...
THE ANTI-capitalist movement has developed astonishingly in the 20 months since the great anti World Trade Organisation protests at Seattle. In every country in the world significant minorities of peo...
