THE BARBARITIES which marked the last century have continued into this one. War rages in Chechnya and in central Africa. The climatic changes caused by global warming have brought disaste
WESTERN leaders welcomed the appointment of Vladimir Putin as stand-in president of Russia when Boris Yeltsin stepped down last week...
"THE YEAR 2000-the year of leisure" was the theme of a two day conference I went to when I was at a further education college in 1980. We were told that new technology would lead to a shorter working
A HIGH court judge tore himself away from his goose, vintage port and cigars to wreck the Christmas break for hundreds of rail workers...
THE 20th century is ending with the horror of Russia's barbaric war against Chechen civilians. As Socialist Worker went to press 40,000 people were still trapped in Grozny after Russian generals threatened last week to annihilate the Chechen capital. Most of those sheltering from the onslaught were too old, sick and frail to leave the city.
THE TABLOID press has launched a frenzy of French bashing after the French government refused to lift its ban on British beef. Tory politicians and papers such as the Daily Mail have led the pack. Now others are joining in. The Mirror has launched a "Say Non To French Golden Delicious" campaign. The Scottish Daily Record ran a page article on how France has always "betrayed" Scotland.
New Labour's "homelessness tsar" has insulted people living on the streets yet again.
THE WORLD Bank has admitted that it will not meet international targets for halving world poverty by the year 2015. This is despite its predictions of faster economic growth rates.
THOUSANDS of workers have learned this week that they will start the new century on the dole, as bosses sack them to boost profits and dividends. Workers in the privatised water industry are reeling after a string of job cut announcements in the last week.
THE FIRM that runs the Aldermaston nuclear weapons research plant was fined £17,500 last week for dumping radioactive waste into a nearby stream. Hunting Brae admitted in court that it had illegally started dumping water contaminated with tritium into the Aldermaston stream in April 1997.
