ALL 700 post office workers at the Greenford office in west London walked out unofficially last week when union rep Steve Botwright was suspended for refusing to take on extra work beyond his normal duties...
Workers from the Heavy Foundry and the IMF Foundry are fighting against 120 a week pay cuts. They voted to escalate their one and two day strikes to all-out action from next Wednesday...
A LABOUR candidate for the local elections in Basildon, Essex, has joined the Socialist Alliance. Charlotte Armstrong is a lone parent and student who was selected to stand as Labour candidate...
LAST WEEK we looked at some of the earliest critics of capitalism, the utopian socialists Saint-Simon, Fourier and Owen. This week our occasional series continues by looking at the ideas of Mikhail Bakunin, one of the best known founders of anarchism...
ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS are predicting that the demonstration outside the G8 summit of world leaders in Genoa in July will be at least 100,000 strong...
GUARDS ON South West Trains (SWT) brought over 1,600 services to a standstill with a 24-hour strike last week. SWT runs services into London's Waterloo station from Surrey, Hampshire and Dorset...
TONY BLAIR led up to his announcement of the election with a major article in the Times against asylum seekers...
THE DUDLEY health strikers heard that the contract to transfer their jobs out of the NHS was signed over the bank holiday weekend...
NIGEL CHAMBERLAIN is the national press officer of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Karl Grossman is professor of journalism at the State University of New York and has written widely on the US government's Son of Star Wars project. Socialist Worker spoke to both about why globalisation is leading to a renewed threat of war rather than the peaceful economic expansion defenders of capitalism predicted.
RECENT BATTLES in the post have revealed new tactics by both Royal Mail and the national CWU union officials. Activists need to organise to face a new challenge...
THE DUDLEY health strikers heard that the contract to transfer their jobs out of the NHS was signed over the bank holiday weekend...
