|
|
Don't let the car plants go the way of the pits
Demonstrate Saturday 1 April
|
|
|
News
Union officials back monster march call 'We want everyone in Birmingham'
Union officials back monster march call 'We want everyone in Birmingham'...
|
|
|
What
we think
Labour fiddles while Rover burns
They have worked their guts out for years and jumped through every hoop the government and bosses have placed before them. Their reward is betrayal. These "hardworking families" now face the
dole...
|
|
|
Comment
Pro-war case falls apart
THE GUARDIAN greeted the first anniversary of the launch of NATO's bombing campaign against Serbia with a series of articles in which it tried nervously to reassure itself that it was right to back
the war...
Inside the
system
Gould's spin on the wheel
UNLIKE THE Dome, the London Eye, the vast wheel which offers panoramic views of the capital, has been genuinely popular. Yet many people who want to ride on the Eye have been infuriated by
delays...
|
|
|
Decades of treachery
"YOU MIGHT as well drop a nuclear bomb on the Midlands. That's what closing Longbridge means." Those are the words of a Rover worker, and he is right. BMW knows it. That is why its managers scarpered ... |
|
|
Letters
From Seattle to east London, and then Washington
AROUND
150 people came along to a "Carnival Against
Capitalism" we helped organise at London Guildhall
University last week... |
|
|
New strike wave breaks in France
The protests marked a new stage in a revolt which has been simmering in France's schools in recent weeks. A new wave of education strikes and a national demonstration in Paris were set for
Friday...
Anti-Haider mood deepens
RESISTANCE TO the far right/Tory coalition government in Austria is deepening. About 1,000 students voted at a mass meeting on Thursday of last week to occupy Vienna
University...
Rally to mark the anniversary of the start of NATO's war in the Balkans |
|
|
We reply to media lies on refugees
Not enough
houses? THE NUMBER of empty homes in Britain leapt to over 772,300 last year, according to a survey by the government's Empty Homes Agency. About 637,000 of them are owned by speculators ...
|
|
|
Story behind New film hurricane
I WAS brought up as an all-American boy. Every day at school I saluted the flag, said the Lord's Prayer and sang "God Bless America". I watched TV and saw happy families-always white, married couples ... |
|
|
In
my view
It's back to new basics
LAST WEEK brought back memories of the autumn of 1992. An announcement of a mass wave of job losses and, simultaneously, a desperately out of touch government stoking fire and brimstone over family
values...
Are pigs about to save our bacon?
"CLONED PIGS Raise Hope Of Organs For Humans". "Cloned Pigs Hold Key To Future Transplants". These headlines greeted the announcement last week that scientists have now produced the world's first
cloned pigs...
Reviews
Dangerous stuff
SOME 120,000 people in the UK die each year as a result of smoking...
|
|
|
Birmingham sales soar
Not to be outdone, east London sellers rushed out a leaflet on Monday over the threatened job losses at Ford's Dagenham plant. 29 papers were sold on the gate. In Glasgow sellers reacted to the witch-... |
|
|
Building the sinews of a socialist campaign
LABOUR LEADERS are reeling in the face of opinion poll evidence that Ken Livingstone still holds a commanding lead in the race for London mayor. Livingstone's lead over New Labour's official candidate...
|
|
|
Industrial reports
A new battle at Waterloo
"THE FEELING at Waterloo is very strong. People are coming up to me inside and outside work saying that they are very angry about Sarah's sacking."...
Mick Rix
THE RIGHT wing in the ASLEF rail union are manoeuvring in an attempt to challenge left wing general secretary Mick Rix. A special recall conference has been called for 25 April to discuss removing Rix...
Teachers
MEMBERS OF the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers' union in England and Wales, will receive ballot papers on Monday of next week...
UNISON
UNISON UNION general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe has repeatedly claimed that the spate of disciplinary cases and expulsions in the union is not a "political
vendetta"...
British
Airways
THERE WERE spontaneous parties in the air and on the ground on
the day we heard that Bob Ayling was to "spend more time
with his family".
No to top-up fees
AROUND 500 students at
Warwick University occupied the college's Senate House...
MSF-AEEU merger
ACTIVISTS IN the MSF union have stepped up their campaign against the proposed merger with the AEEU union. MSF leader Roger Lyons and AEEU leader Ken Jackson are pushing for a joint union. Lyons has e...
Postal workers
AROUND 600 postal workers walked out unofficially...
Anti-racism
A VICIOUS attack on two tourists last week spurred local people into action against racism in Liverpool...
In brief
SCOTTISH AND Grampian TV could be blacked out by strikes after staff voted for action against job cuts and a pay
freeze...
|
|
|
'We're sick of being at bosses' beck and call'
NEW LABOUR lost the Scottish Parliament by-election in Ayr last week. Labour's vote fell by 16 percent, letting the hated Tories back in...
Why are Bowyer and Woodgate still playing?
THE FAMILY of Asian student Sarfraz Najeib were shocked last week to hear that football players Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate are still being allowed to play for Leeds
FC.... |
|
|
NHS will still fall far short of Euro average
GORDON Brown promised a much bigger than expected increase in health spending over the next four years. He said health spending will rise by 6.1 percent each year for four
years...
|
|
|
