"IT'S TIME to dust down the banners and braziers: the trade unions are back, and they are angry. If the unions were relatively content with Tony Blair during his first term, they are distinctly unhappy with what he might do in his second."...
THE MEDICAL secretaries' dispute in Scotland was delicately poised as Socialist Worker went to press...
THE QUEEN'S birthday honours list which was announced recently shows the businessmen New Labour loves...
THREE UNIVERSITY of Papua New Guinea students are dead and several are in a critical condition. Some have disappeared into police custody...
FEW PEOPLE in Serbia shed any tears for Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian leader extradited to Holland last week. And rightly so. Milosevic is guilty of war crimes. But so too is NATO...
TWO LANCASHIRE towns, two big votes for the BNP, two "riots" as Asian communities are attacked by racists and the police do nothing. Recent events in Burnley and Oldham (and Accrington last weekend) ...
BRITAIN'S NAZIS are putting on a respectable front on TV and radio. Don't be fooled.
"I HATE to say we told you so. This is what happens when 4,000 people vote for Nazis. The British National Party go on the offensive." That was the comment from Helen, who lives near Burnley, after the riots in the town last weekend...
THE NEW Labour government is on a collision course with public sector workers. That was dramatically underlined last week at the conference of UNISON-Britain's biggest trade union, with 1.3 million members...
PEOPLE pressure mounted on a Glasgow college board of managers last week. On the Thursday a spontaneous protest by further education workers took place...
