* NEW LABOUR minister Stephen Byers refuses to raise the minimum wage this year, claiming a higher level could cost jobs. But new research by Incomes Data Services found that job losses did not happen...
REMEMBER THE man New Labour recruited to sell the New Deal in a multi-million pound series of TV adverts last year
WORKERS IN Britain are working longer despite the European Working Time Directive which is supposed to restrict the working week to 48 hours.
OVER 800 firefighters and their supporters marched through east London on Friday of last week against the threat by management to discipline and possibly sack 11 of their colleagues...
STUDENT NURSES in Greenwich face eviction from their nurses' home to make way for luxury flats overlooking the Dome...
THE LABOUR Party in Wales was in turmoil this week as its leader, Alun Michael, faced a no-confidence vote in the devolved assembly.
I WORK in a non-unionised meat production factory as an operative under the New Deal Initiative on 3.60-3.75 an hour.
A VICTORY for bigotry, scored by a bunch of unelected and unrepresentative Tories and bishops. That is the reality of the House of Lords vote to keep the anti-gay Section 28...
Socialist Worker sellers were out last Saturday building the protests against the fascists entering the government in Austria...
OVER 12,500 young people saw US band Rage Against the Machine (RATM) and Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) in London last week. The concert was like an anti-capitalist carnival....
A CEREMONY to mark 100 years of the Labour Party this month is to be run with the help of union-bashing boss Rupert Murdoch...
