TWO WEEKS ago there was a conference which should have shaken New Labour's leaders to their roots-and it wasn't the Women's Institute...
A GENERAL strike in Nigeria, Africa's most heavily populated country, has rocked the government and its international backers. The strike began on Thursday of last week...
AROUND 80 people attended a meeting in Brighton last week in support of refugees...
JOHN BROCK and Ruth Wyner, two Cambridge charity workers, have been in prison six months this Saturday. They were jailed for four and five years respectively because, unbeknown to them...
PUBLIC SECTOR unions in Germany were locked in talks with the government over possible pay strikes as Socialist Worker went to press. The unions represent over three million workers...
GIANT global corporations have quite rightly become the targets of anti-capitalist protesters...
THE BATTLE for the parliamentary seat held by black Labour MP Bernie Grant, who died earlier this year, has entered its final week. The by-election in Tottenham, north London, takes place next...
THE GOVERNMENT responded with derision to a sensible and modest proposal from the public sector workers' UNISON union this week. The union called for income tax to be raised to 50 percent on earnings ...
A SINGLE horse and cart was the only transport moving in La Plata, Argentina, on Friday of last week as the country was almost completely paralysed by a general strike...
MILLIONS OF youngsters in Britain are trapped in conditions that are amongst the worst in Europe and the industrialised world. That is the message of a new United Nations (UN) report...
AT TEN o'clock last Sunday morning a group of Asian workers secretly gathered at Amersham Common village hall, 35 miles west of London. The workers at Wells Hinton Plastics...
NEW LABOUR is using the excuse of "driving hooligans out of British football" to force through attacks on civil liberties. Alistair Darling, the social security secretary, wants to rob fans of their ...
