Over 3,000 British Airways (BA) workers crammed into an electric mass meeting at the Sandown racecourse on Monday of this week, as their Unite union prepared for a strike ballot.
Around 120,000 postal workers took strike action last week and CWU union activists across Britain told Socialist Worker that their action remained absolutely solid.
Today saw the beginning of the second wave of national strikes at Royal Mail. Tens of thousands of postal workers in mail centres and the company’s network drivers and depot staff took to picket lines. CWU union activists across Britain told Socialist Worker that their action remains absolutely solid.
BBC has given a boost to Nazi Nick Griffin
Not surprisingly, the BBC has been congratulating itself about the appearance of fascist British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin on Question Time.
Hundreds of drivers at Britain’s biggest bus operator, First, were on strike on Monday of this week against bosses’ attempts to impose a national pay freeze for this year.
The Observer newspaper presented the findings of a major survey into race in Britain in November 2001. One question asked which ethnic community had had the most positive influence on British society. Some 52 percent of respondents replied Asian.
Thousands of anti-fascists laid siege to the BBC’s studios in London on Thursday of last week as fascist British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin was handed an unprecedented publicity coup on Question Time.
The appearance of Nick Griffin, the leader of the fascist British National Party (BNP), on last week’s Question Time on BBC1 has raised the stakes for the anti-Nazi movement.
