IT LOOKS as if US capitalism's longest party may finally be coming to an end. "Growth has slowed markedly in the domestic US economy in the past few months," the Financial Times reports...
THE SUBJECT of pensions is giving Tony Blair and chancellor Gordon Brown their biggest headaches at the moment...
A POLITICAL upheaval is shaking the quarter of a million strong PCS civil servants' union. The right wing leader of the PCS, Barry Reamsbottom, suffered a massive humiliation last week
LANCASHIRE Socialist Alliance is to stand a candidate in the forthcoming parliamentary by-election in Preston...
BRITAIN IS the least family-friendly place in Europe, says a report by the National Family and Parenting Institute...
"IF YUGOSLAVIA did it, why can't we?" shouted a demonstrator in Zimbabwe, southern Africa, last week. He was one of thousands of people who took part in three days of riots..
OFFICIAL POLITICS in Britain is focused on the parties' manoeuvrings in advance of the next general election...
THE ELECTION last weekend for Labour's successor to Donald Dewar as Scottish first minister produced a staggering result. The leadership's favoured candidate, Henry McLeish, won by only 44 votes to 36...
NEW LABOUR has awarded the contract to run the National Criminal Records Agency to the private company Capita...
