Gordon Brown’s notice of resignation was a last-ditch attempt to enable the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition with Labour and keep his party in government. It presents many questions to trade union leaders.
The European Union (EU) and IMF are ready to hand another $1 trillion to the bankers while demanding an intensification of the assault on Greek workers.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico shows how multinational corporations are threatening the environment and the lives of working class people.
The general election campaign has been a fraud. The major contenders – all three of them – failed to talk honestly about the cuts, engage with the horror in Afghanistan, or admit how hard life is for the majority of people.
It is still unclear who will win the most votes, who will have the most seats or who will be the government after 6 May. But no party or combination of parties will have a mandate for the cuts they will then try to unleash.
Nobody can now be sure who will win the general election on 6 May. As this week started the three main parties were within a few percent of each other in the polls.
The televised leaders’ debate this week was scheduled to be on foreign policy.
WORLD RULERS are in crisis. A revolution erupts in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, in Russia’s "backyard". An open Nazi party takes nearly one in five votes in the first round of the Hungarian elections. In Thailand, a mass movement shakes the regime. In Greece, the fear of meltdown forces the EU to offer emergency funds—at a price.
US President Barack Obama is playing host to the leaders of 47 nations for discussions about nuclear weapons.
The Tories—a party of the rich, for the rich—shouldn’t have a hope in the general election.
The video is graphic and disturbing and we weren’t meant to see it.
The newspapers were quick to declare victory for the Liberal Democrats’ Vince Cable in last week’s "Ask the Chancellors" TV debate.
