COUNCIL TENANTS in Farnham and Godalming in Surrey have rejected a plan by Tory-run Waverley Borough Council to hand their homes to a private housing company...
MORE AND more people are revolted by the domination of the world by multinational corporations. Often the targets for people's anger are giant corporations based in the US...
"WE CAN'T possibly write off the debt of Third World countries-they'll only spend the money on arms." That was a key justification offered by Western leaders for leaving the poorest countries...
THE NUMBER of students living at home while studying for a degree is going up as the cost of a university education rises...
"AN ACT of mass kidnapping." That's how the US Washington Post newspaper described one of the dirtiest episodes in British and American foreign policy...
THE NEWS of the World is exploiting the murder of eight year old Sarah Payne to boost its sales through a cynical campaign which could unleash lynch mobs across Britain...
"CARRY ON Spending." That is how the left Labour weekly Tribune greeted Gordon Brown's public spending package last week. Alice Mahon MP summed up the welcome many Labour backbenchers...
DEPUTY PRIME minister John Prescott unveiled new spending plans for transport last week. But the great bulk of the cash will be going as subsidy to privatised bus and rail firms...
THE GOVERNMENT claims that its "National Plan", launched this week, will save the National Health Service. But behind the talk of "modernisation" and "reform" New Labour is embarking on the biggest privatisation programme in the history of the NHS...
"WE ARE delivering on the fundamentals." That was Tony Blair's upbeat message last week, backed by the spin around chancellor Gordon Brown's spending review on Tuesday...
