The battle lines across British society could not have been drawn more starkly. At Grangemouth in Scotland refinery workers this week stood up for all of us when they confronted a billionaire oil baron out to rob their pensions.
Millions of people across Britain will be shocked and horrified by the news that the fascist British National Party (BNP) has managed to grab an assembly seat in London – one of the most multiracial and diverse cities of the world.
Gordon Brown has reaped what New Labour sowed. This week’s elections saw the crisis-ridden government battered – losing the London mayor to Tory Boris Johnson and polling Labour’s worst results in 40 years in council elections across England and Wales.
Local council elections across much of England and Wales yesterday saw Labour’s worst electoral results for 40 years. The party polled just 24 percent of the vote and came in third, losing around 300 councillors.
Hundreds of thousands of workers across the world took part in celebrations and protests to mark International Workers’ Day on Thursday. The demands of the demonstrations were remarkably similar – no to privatisation, defence of public services and migrant workers, and higher wages to deal with the soaring price of food and fuel that is contributing to a decline in workers’ living standards the world over.
Results for the Left List and candidates the Left List is supporting in the London mayoral, London Assembly elections and English and Welsh Council elections held on 1 May 2008
Around 450 workers at the Shelter housing charity struck for 48 hours last week, and were were set to strike again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
The fightback against Gordon Brown’s pay limit started in earnest on Thursday of last week. Up and down the country more than 400,000 workers were on strike. Teachers, lecturers, civil service workers and 20,000 Birmingham council workers walked out.
Hundreds of workers at Blackburn with Darwen council are set to go on indefinite strike from Wednesday of next week over the implementation of a single status pay deal.
