THE SHOCKING news of the closure of Vauxhall's Luton car plant came after a week of swingeing job cuts announcements across Britain...
BRITAIN WAS on the verge of a national postal workers' strike last week, entirely driven by rank and file pressure, militancy and organisation against management's attacks...
DELEGATES TO the European Union summit in Nice had a great nosh up. In the interests of Europe the 2,000 delegates gorged themselves on 10,000 bottles of the finest champagne...
"SELF INDULGENT" and "intolerable". That's what Labour's development secretary Clare Short says about people who protest against globalisation and the killer policies of the International Monetary Fun
OVER 200 left wing political prisoners in Turkey and their supporters were continuing their hunger strike as Socialist Worker went to press. Many had been refusing food for 54 days...
TWO HEADTEACHERS in schools in Greater Manchester are campaigning to stop the deportation of Lian Hu Su and his family back to China...
IT'S HARD to get worked up about all the manoeuvring at the European Union (EU) summit in Nice...
WALTHAM Forest council recently called a public meeting for parents, teachers and local people. It was supposed to "inform" us of their plans to privatise education in the borough...
TOMMY Sheridan, the socialist Member of the Scottish Parliament, faces jail for protesting against nuclear weapons. Tommy was arrested in February when he was part of a peaceful blockade...
"THIS COMES totally out of the blue. I'm really upset. We've been bending over backwards to increase productivity. Now what are we going to do?"...
