Hundreds of thousands of workers across Britain are fighting for decent pay, and bus workers in London are set to join them. Workers have resoundingly kicked out pay offers at most of the major bus companies.
Shortly after Socialist Worker went to press this week, the CWU union announced that activist Pat Carmody had been reinstated in his job at Pell & Bales call centre. The CWU announcement is copied below.
Gordon Brown used an address to the Knesset – the Israeli parliament – earlier this week to make new threats against Iran and label those who oppose Israel as "antisemites".
Many of the world’s leaders are treating Barack Obama as the US "president in waiting". They are urging him to find a way to stabilise Afghanistan and cool tensions in the Middle East.
"Labour has clearly lost touch with millions of core Labour voters. It has to do something to reverse that"Derek Simpson joint general secretary of the Unite union
We Need To See Evidence Of This is a remarkable piece of art made by young socialist artists, Roxanne Chappell and Donna Snell, that was recently shown in the Portsmouth University Space gallery
Many people in Britain value the cultural diversity that immigration brings, according to a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that disputes many assumptions that underlie recent government policy over immigration.
Big business has welcomed chancellor Alistair Darling’s announcement that he has dropped plans to crack down on corporate tax avoidance and retreated on proposals to tax profits made by British companies abroad.
