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WHEN I left school there were only two options facing me in the village I lived in near the Faslane naval base in Rosyth—the dole or working in forestry.

THE GOVERNMENT plans to introduce new fire precautions legislation with far-reaching implications for all workplaces, and especially the railways.

RESPECT’S RESULTS in the Leicester South and Birmingham Hodge Hill by-elections have rocked the political establishment.

COCA-COLA’S national force of field engineers have voted 90 percent in favour of union recognition with Amicus.

LYNNE HUBBARD, a health worker who was active in the Hodge Hill campaign, told Socialist Worker, "In some areas of the constituency it was clear that we had won many of the people who were central to all the stop the war activity to Respect.

AROUND 10,000 people attended the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs celebration in Dorset last Sunday.

I ARGUED last week that a revolutionary party is not necessary for a revolution to begin—but it is necessary for that revolution to succeed.

LEWISHAM RESPECT, and others, are campaigning against the closure of Ladywell leisure centre in south east London.

Canary Wharf in east London is the site of the cathedrals of capitalism. It is the most concentrated area of wealth in Britain. Its only rival is the very heart of the City around the Bank of England.

TENS OF thousands of people—black, white and Asian—joined the Respect anti-racist festival in London’s Victoria Park last Saturday.

I work as a cleaner, 9.30pm to 6am, five nights a week, Sunday to Thursday.

THREE DISPUTES over pay on the buses have come along at once.