NEW LABOUR last week announced that men over 60 would have to look for work or face having their benefits axed...
THREE YEARS in government and Labour is deep in crisis. Tony Blair was set to wake up on Friday morning to the news that his handpicked candidate for London mayor received a humiliating vote...
THIS WEEK marks a shift in British politics. As the front page says, we face big job losses, the collapse of support for Labour plus humiliation for Blair in London, and Hague's attempt to whip up racism against asylum seekers. Socialist Worker readers need to respond...
HOW DO we know whether genetically modified (GM) food is safe? That's a tough question to answer, especially given what the Observer newspaper revealed recently...
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown now has another 22 billion to add to the billions he already has in his "war chest"...
Strike to shut Ford across EuropeOccupy Rover to keep out alchemyStop New Labour giving in to the fat cats
MANUFACTURING industry in Britain is bleeding to death. That's what the leader of one of Britain's biggest unions says. John Edmonds of the general workers' GMB union said this week, "Ministers must wake up. UK industry is not facing an inflation crisis or a sterling crisis. It is facing a manufacturing crisis on a scale not seen since the dark days of Thatcherism." Edmonds spoke out with thousands of car workers at Ford and Rover facing the sack. Asset-strippers Alchemy looked set to take Rover over at the end of this week, and multinational giant Ford is set to announce the effective closure of its Dagenham plant in Essex.
MANUFACTURING industry in Britain is bleeding to death. That's what the leader of one of Britain's biggest unions says...
Over the Easter weekend Socialist Worker sellers took to the streets campaigning in defence of refugees...
THERE ARE just a few days left in the campaign to get the socialist message out across London...
POLITICIANS AND most of the press want working people to blame asylum seekers for the housing crisis in Britain, and for the lack of decent services, benefits or jobs...
