There is hardly an area of Britain that is not suffering the prospect of savage cuts to local health provision. In towns and cities there are protest rallies, marches and campaign meetings to save local hospitals and facilities.
The prospect of a power sharing government in Northern Ireland led by the veteran Unionist bigot Ian Paisley, and backed by the Republicans of Sinn Fein, took a step closer last month.
The prospect of the end of Tony Blair’s rule has created a debate inside the anti-war and trade union movements about what needs to be done to get real change.
Members of the Prospect civil service workers’ union at the Ordnance Survey have voted by four to one to strike in protest at the failure of management to agree a fair pay deal, ten months after its implementation date.
We are reaching a turning point in history. The US is caught in a military stalemate in Iraq and most Americans have turned against the war. The prospect is now opening up that the US may be forced to leave Iraq. And such a political humiliation would have enormous consequences across the world.
PCS and Prospect union members at the Ordnance Survey (OS) mapmakers are being balloted on industrial action as frustration mounts at the lack of a fair pay deal which is already ten months late.
Thousands of members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ union in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are balloting for strike action over job cuts and relocations.
A year long campaign for union recognition at the National Maritime Museum in south east London has ended in a stunning victory for its 500 members of staff. Staff have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the PCS and Prospect unions being recognised.
Almost all politicians and most of the media have totally misrepresented the prospects of the fascist British National Party (BNP) at the council elections in Barking & Dagenham. And by exaggerating the BNP’s hold, they have helped the fascists to spread their poison.
Around 1.5 million workers from at least ten unions could soon be on strike over pensions. It is a prospect that will frighten Labour ministers and give heart to all those who want to put an end to the slaughter of workers’ pensions.
