THE HEALTH service suddenly became an election issue this week-and no wonder. Four years of New Labour government have totally failed to drive down the wait for NHS operations...
THE GULF between rich and poor has grown faster under Tony Blair than it did under Tory John Major....
FEELINGS OF bewilderment and fury swept tube workers last week. Their strike was called off just hours before it was to begin. The RMT union suspended the 24-hour strike on Wednesday...
THE RICH have nothing to fear from a Labour election victory. That was Tony Blair's main message as he launched his election campaign. He pledged not to raise the top rate of income tax...
Over 600 people protested outside the US embassy last Saturday against George Bush's decision to condemn the planet to global warming...
THE MAY Day protest in London last week forced sections of the media briefly to treat seriously the arguments of the anti-capitalist movement.
SHOPPERS on Erdington High Street in Birmingham last Saturday got their chance to throw a wet sponge at Tony Blair. A Socialist Alliance supporter wore a Tony Blair mask and was pelted with sponges...
MEDICAL SECRETARIES in Scotland are balloting for strike action to fight for better pay. Around 100 medical secretaries, and admin and clerical staff from UNISON branches across Scotland...
THE SCOTTISH Socialist Party (SSP) will be a powerful force in the general election. Socialist Worker spoke to Tommy Sheridan, the SSP's member of the Scottish Parliament, about the potential...
THE POLICE ensured that the Nazi National Front (NF) was able to defy home secretary Jack Straw's ban on its march in Oldham last Saturday. Greater Manchester police deployed 500 police...
THE DAILY Telegraph had a full page feature last Friday on the London May Day protest. It was not quite what you might have expected in the true blue Tory paper...
