THE BY-ELECTION in Tottenham, north London, last week was another sign of the crisis of New Labour. It also showed that socialists who argue for a fighting left alternative can win a sizeable audienc
RICH PARASITES like those pictured above lived it up at Royal Ascot last week. Summer for this lot will consist of an endless whirl of such events...
DAVID Richardson lies in a critical condition in hospital after a brutal racist attack. He had been visiting Dublin with his wife to see his son. He was attacked because of the colour of his family's...
OVER 10,000 job losses were announced across Britain last week. Retailer C&A is to shut all its stores. BAe and Corus steel are sacking thousands of workers...
THE WORLD Bank has faced plenty of opposition from people outside its ranks in recent years. But now revolt is growing inside as well. One of the bank's most senior figures has resigned...
LAST WEEK scientists finally discovered the cause of a mystery illness which has killed or injured dozens of injecting heroin users, most of them from Scotland, over the past two months...
ZIMBABWE FACES its most important election this weekend since the country became independent in April 1980. To judge by the coverage of Zimbabwean politics by the British media, the central issue is the plight of a few thousand white farmers...
THE POST Office is threatening to cut jobs done by its own staff and hand their work out to a private sector company. Management plans to form a partnership with the privatised Dutch post office...
THE DESTRUCTION of the foundation of the National Health Service. That is the reality of the plans New Labour announced last week to link the NHS with private medicine...
THE ISSUE of abandoning the pound for the single European currency, the euro, helped tear apart the Tory governments of Thatcher and Major. Now it is causing mayhem in the Labour cabinet...
