THIS IS what the New Deal means to me as an 18 to 25 year old. Option one was 60 for up to seven 12-hour shifts per week for an employer who refused to pay after two months work...
JUST BEFORE the election around 50,000 postal workers stuck unofficially and illegally-and won. They were protesting at their bosses' demands for "flexibility", ever harder working, more competition ...
DELEGATES TO the MSF union conference in Eastbourne delivered their verdict on Blair's plans for a second term last weekend. They voted overwhelmingly to oppose New Labour's privatisation of the NHS...
"IF LABOUR think that they have been given a mandate to go ahead with further privatisation of public services then they had better think again." So said Dave Prentis-the leader of Britain's biggest u
THE NAZIS' electoral success in Oldham has sent a hardcore of racists in the town onto the offensive...
Jose Bove is one of the best known figures of the anti-globalisation movement which has spread across the globe since the great protest against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle in November 1999. He is in Britain this week, along with Francois Dufour, a fellow leader of the radical French small farmers' organisation. They are speaking at meetings to push a message of resistance to the corporations and governments which do their bidding: 'The world is not for sale!'
MORE PEOPLE in Britain are becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS than at any time since the disease was first discovered 20 years ago. The shocking news comes despite signs in recent year...
"THIS HAS been a long time coming. What else can the police expect when they treat people like this?" This was the response of Aftab, a local resident, after 300 people fought running battles with the
"NEVER BEFORE has a party had so much command over the House of Commons yet so little over the electorate. That appears to be the stark contrast that now faces British politics over the next four or five years."...
READERS OF Socialist Worker will be pleased to know that Bulgari Collection Internationale has just revealed its latest range of jewelry...
CARE FOR the elderly in Britain is in a state of near collapse. That is the devastating conclusion of the authoritative King's Fund charity.
