The report was handed to government ministers but will not be fully published until 26 October. It should be a savage indictment of Tory governments through the 1980s and 1990s.Seventy five people hav
That is the question being asked not only by the protesters against the IMF and the World Bank, but by the IMF and the World Bank themselves. Resistance to pro-market 'neo-liberal' policies across th...
The World Bank may have changed its tone, and the IMF now talks of "poverty reduction" instead of "structural adjustment." In reality they both screw debt repayments from the poorest countries, putti...
Some 37 organisations had backed the demonstration including Cleveland TUC, the North East Pensioners Association and Newcastle Trades Council. Teesside MSF and the TGWU's Middlesbrough Stagecoach bra...
"IF THE trade unions fight Blair, then the Tories will get back in. Look at the strikes of 1978-9. The 'Winter of Discontent' paved the way for Thatcher." That argument is coming from all quarters-the...
At the convergence centre for the protesters we set up a stall on an old door we had found. We started out with publications we had brought with us such as Socialist Worker, International Socialism, ...
FORD WORKERS at Dagenham in Essex will start a strike ballot on 24 October The entire Dagenham workforce will gather at two mass meetings the day before. Thousand of jobs are under threat following ...
Delegates did not confine themselves to muttered dissent in fringe meetings. They defeated the leadership in a high profile confrontation. The revolt over pensions rocked Tony Blair and chancellor Go...
On display at the conference was a mob of anti working class bigots and racists. The Tories can only get so much as a look in because New Labour has failed to take from the rich to give to public serv...
This is the horror of the Israeli repression of the Palestinians shown at the start of this week. On the one side stands Israel, the US's biggest ally in the Middle East and one of the most militarise...
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NEW LABOUR has appointed a Tory trade union buster to be its secret "oil" tsar in charge of planning to break any future oil blockade. Jeffrey Sterling, now a Tory lord, is chair of the P&O shipping ...
