ULSTER Unionist leader David Trimble resigned as Northern Ireland first minister on Sunday, raising the spectre of deep crisis...
THE DOCTORS' British Medical Association denounced the government this week for underfunding the NHS and piling pressure on those who hold it together
WHAT A difference a year makes. Last summer the supporters of capitalism were rejoicing in what they claimed was an unprecedented American boom...
ANTI-CAPITALISM has come to Austria for the first time. Around 2,000 people descended on the small town of Salzburg when it hosted the meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) last weekend...
OVER 30,000 people took part in the annual lesbian and gay pride march in central London last Saturday. There was a buoyant and political mood...
COLIN Byrne ran the "business relations unit" at Labour's Millbank headquarters during the general election. He has now returned to his usual job as chief executive at the lobbying firm Shandwick...
UNION LEADERS met Tony Blair last week to talk about New Labour's privatisation plans for public services...
ONE MONTH into Blair's second government and it is all so different from four years ago. In July 1997 New Labour was basking in the afterglow of the crushing defeat inflicted on the hated Tories...
THE NAZI British National Party (BNP) hopes to capitalise on the bitterness and disaffection many people in Britain feel at what is happening to their lives...
THE build-up for the protests against the leaders of the G8 eight richest countries in Genoa in Italy on 19-21 July is becoming bigger by the day...