THE MARCH in Scotland over drugs which has been pushed by the Daily Record went ahead last Sunday. The newspaper has been running a vicious campaign against socialist MSP Tommy Sheridan...
DELEGATES to UNISON health conference last week voted unanimously to abandon the union's failed "twin track approach" of piecemeal opposition PFI in the health service...
THE OCCUPATION of Govanhill Pool in Glasgow is gathering momentum. Activists have occupied the pool for two weeks against its threatened closure...
"OUR TIME has come." That was how NUJ union president Dave Toomer summed up the launch of the Socialist Alliance at the union's annual conference...
FOR A sense of opinion among at least a section of the country folk who are demanding our money to compensate for foot and mouth, get on the web...
And 450 people packed a meeting called by the Environment Agency as part of a three-month public consultation...
TUBE WORKERS defied the anti-union laws and struck a blow against privatisation last week. Their second strike brought London Underground to a halt. Management admitted that not a single tube train ...
THINGS have certainly got better for some under New Labour. The number of millionaires in Britain has more than doubled in the last five years.In 1995 there were 33,063 millionaires. By last year that...
"THE GOVERNMENT is capitulating to big business." That's the verdict of Sophia Tickell of the Oxfam charity on Tony Blair's latest move on behalf of giant multinational corporations...
"I'M OUTRAGED. This is no time to call off a strike, with the government and management on the defensive." That is how one tube driver in the ASLEF union reacted to the news that his union leaders...
SENIOR executives at the Royal Bank of Scotland are to more than double their pay in return for an average performance...
THE 120 factory workers at Team Valley Brush in Gateshead have launched a support group with the help of the Socialist Alliance on Tyneside after three weeks on indefinite strike...