Authorities at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand are attempting to victimise anti-military junta academic Giles Ji Ungpakorn, Associate Professor of Political Science.
Thousands of anti-war protesters gathered outside the Labour Party special conference last Sunday as Gordon Brown was anointed the new leader of the party without a contest.
The four day nationwide strike in Nigeria from 20 to 23 June has once again demonstrated the revolutionary potential of the working class. Nigeria’s President, Umaru Yar’Adua, said the strike "wreaked havoc on our economy and our people" in a letter to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
We are asking every worker in Britain to support our strike on Friday of this week to stop Royal Mail’s devastating business plan. This plan will mean cuts in your postal service, fewer collections and deliveries, even more post office closures and cuts to workers’ pay and conditions.
Terry from Liverpool: We need better pay, not pay cuts. I start work at 5am on deliveries. That means getting up at a time which most people would regard as the middle of the night.
At the Save Gloucester Mail Centre demonstration last Saturday it was noticeable that the CWU union campaign and the intransigent attitude of Royal Mail management has had an effect on the membership.
"This year the government and the employers have miscalculated," Dave Prentis, general secretary of the Unison union, told delegates to the public sector union’s conference in Brighton last week.
