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They are playing roulette with our lives
THIS NEW Labour government is pushing through the insane privatisation of air traffic control. They have broken their pre-election promise that "our air is not for sale"...
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News
JOBS CRISIS... JOBS CRISIS... JOBS CRISIS... JOBS CRISIS...
WORKERS AT Kvaerner Energy in Clydebank began a work-in this week after a mass meeting on Monday morning.
Shopfloor workers decided enough was enough and locked managers out...
Pensions still a scandal
THE government claims it is giving new help to pensioners this week.
It is a lie. The "new" tax credit scheme it announced is a rehash of one already signalled in the budget...
Government bows to business
THE government has handed hundreds of millions of pounds to multinational corporations by allowing them to continue fiddling their tax...
Fresh Start fails
THE government's "Fresh Start" initiative for so called "failing" schools was dealt another blow this week...
Blair's Britain
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What
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They'd sell their granny for profit
DEPUTY PRIME minister John Prescott tried desperately to defend the privatisation of air traffic control at the MSF union conference on Monday.
But his speech was met with stony faces...
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Inside the
system
Dangerous cop drivers
A HANDCUFFED man whose neck was
broken when police took him on a "rollercoaster"
drive in the back of a police van is suing Kent police for
damages...
Comment
The May Day arguments
I MISSED the May Day protests in London, but I should declare an interest in them.
As a student at Oxford in the early 1970s I was suspended for a year for my part in spray-painting Balliol College ...
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Why don't they listen to voters' voice?
DEPUTY PRIME minister John Prescott has brushed aside last week's message from London voters and is determined to push through tube... |
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Letters
Press and politicians attack
London may day protest
THE MEDIA are projecting Winston Churchill as a beloved leader who won World War Two single
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Nazis boosted by Hague's race rant
"IT'S FRIGHTENING. I'm already looking over my shoulder. But I like living here. I don't see why any narrow-minded, bigoted Nazi should drive me out."
So said Janet, a black woman... |
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Popular revolt against market
MASS PROTESTS and strikes hit Brazil, Latin America's largest economy, two weeks ago.
Further north in Latin America the capital of Guatemala was swept by riots and street protests...
Noam
Chomsky speaks to Socialist Worker on Globalising resistance to corporate power
NOAM CHOMSKY is one of the most well known writers and anti-imperialist campaigners in the US today.
He has written on many subjects, including the role of the media and NATO's war in Kosovo....
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World turned upside down
WE ARE told that capitalism is the only way to run the world.
But the society we live in today is a product of revolutionary changes that began only about 200 years ago... |
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Struggle over the sweeties
IN THE 1980s it was explained to us that the class struggle was over. Look, they said, everyone is middle class, so now no one has to struggle, so there is no class struggle...
Anti-Capitalism Marxism 2000 London, 7-14 July
THERE IS a growing revolt against capitalism.
Protests in Seattle and Washington show how more and more people are turning against giant
corporations...
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Time for change
FOLLOWING THE successful election campaign of the London Socialist Alliance there is a major reorganisation of the Socialist Workers Party in London... |
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'One stock broker, one too many!'
NORWAY WAS in the grip of its biggest strike since 1921 at the start of this week. The fight is over wages but reflects a wider revolt against capitalism and the country's deepening class divide...
Africans abandoned to war in Sierra Leone
THE RETURN of fierce civil war to Sierra Leone underlines the cynicism and failures of British foreign policy towards the country.
At least 50,000 people have died in fighting during the last decade...
Jail threat in Portugal
PORTUGAL WAS in the grip of a wave of strikes this week, and the country's Labour government responded by threatening to jail strikers...
Janitors' victory in US
CARETAKERS IN Los Angeles have won a pay rise after more than a month on strike, and have forced their bosses to swallow talk of a pay freeze...
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Memorial meeting
UNISON
FAITH RYAN was applauded when she walked back into work in Birmingham council last week.
Her fellow workers saw her return as a victory for themselves and Faith, a UNISON union shop steward...
Pfizer
SACKED electricians at the Pfizer plant in Kent are now maintaining seven-day picket lines.
This is in response to an attempt by the contractor Balfour Kilpatrick to recruit scab
labour...
Defending pay and principles
"PEOPLE SEE it as a moral thing. If they can do this, what will be next?"
That is how Emma summed up why 60 teachers, members of the NUT union, were out on strike on Thursday of last week...
Students
OVER 250 students occupied the administration building of Bristol University for two hours on Friday of last week.
They were protesting against the introduction of top-up fees...
Post
A reps' meeting at North/ North West London branch of the union in March voted overwhelmingly to support Ken Livingstone and the London Socialist Alliance...
Anti-racism/campaigns
Sarah Friday
THE FIGHT to reinstate sacked South West Trains driver Sarah Friday has suffered a serious blow after an attempt to spread the dispute failed...
BT
LEADERS OF the BT section of the Communication Workers Union have agreed a deal which tramples on union democracy and has infuriated many activists...
BAA
WORKERS across the British Airports Authority have rejected the company's "final" pay offer of 2.6 percent...
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A bitter mood against Labour
DELEGATES TO the annual conference of the MSF union in Harrogate poured out their feelings of bitterness with New Labour last weekend...
BECTU
THE ANNUAL conference of the broadcasting and media union BECTU took place last weekend. Disaffection with the Labour Party was more obvious than ever before...
NHS
STUDENT NURSES in London are stepping up their campaign against poverty wages...
Foframe
MEMBERS OF the GMB union are on all-out strike at Foframe in
Huntingdon...
Legalise cannabis
SOME 15,000 people marched in south London on Saturday to call for the legalisation of cannabis.
There was a carnival atmosphere, with music and dancing in the streets...
Civil servants
A HUGE row has broken out amongst the leadership of the civil servants' PCS union on the eve of its national conference...
Sanctions campaign
OVER 500 people attended a conference in central London against sanctions on Iraq on Saturday of last week...
Sellafield
OVER 100 contract workers at the Sellafield nuclear plant struck for the second week running on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
The AEEU union members intend to continue with lightning picketing...
Housing
SOME 65 people attended a Defend Council Housing campaign conference in
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on Saturday of last week...
Buses
BUS WORKERS at Stagecoach's Ribblebus firm in Lancashire were set to strike on Wednesday of this week. The workers last went on strike in 1998. During the dispute Frank Dean, a picket, was killed by...
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Unions defend asylum seekers
JOHN EDMONDS, leader of the powerful GMB manual workers' union, is backing the national statement condemning the Tory-led witch-hunt against asylum seekers...
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