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Multinationals wreck our lives. It's time to
Strike back
"WE ARE just a number to
multinationals like Ford. It's like the slave trade again. We're
treated like animals, not human beings...
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News
Straw copies Tory Howard
NEW LABOUR'S Jack Straw is bringing in "short sharp shock" jail sentences for young offenders.
This is a copy of the Tory government's policies in the 1980s and 1990s which failed to reduce crime...
After Paddington rail crash
RAILTRACK bosses went on a drunken rampage the day after the inquiry into the Paddington crash started last week, according to the Mirror...
Rooker roasted by pensioners
SOCIAL SECURITY minister Jeff Rooker faced slow hand-clapping and loud booing from 1,000 delegates at the National Pensioners Convention last week...
In brief
Jobs threat
TEXTILE firm Courtaulds is to slash more than 600 jobs at three of its factories.
The company wants to axe factories in Bolsover in Derbyshire and Wishaw in
Lanarkshire, Scotland...
Bowing to the bigots
NEW LABOUR in Scotland has caved in to the bigots who want to keep Section 28, the anti-gay clause which forbids the "promotion" of homosexuality...
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What
we think
Are Tories on the way back?
THE SPECTRE of the Tories winning the next general election sends a shiver down the spine of everyone who suffered the barbarity of 18 years of Thatcher and Major...
The action we need
WE NEED a change of direction throughout the labour movement.
Every trade unionist, tenant activist, anti-racist and campaigner faces a choice...
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Inside the
system
Blair's 'roots' wither
TONY BLAIR'S pamphlet The Roots of New Labour hailed the growth of his Constituency Labour Party in Sedgefield as a model.
But party membership has slumped by half in Sedgefield since the 1997 genera...
Things they say
Comment
Monolith cracking
THE ELECTIONS a fortnight ago marked a watershed in the life of Tony Blair's government.
The bloom has faded from New Labour. It faces a tough fight in the general election...
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Bosses locked out by their workers
WORKERS at Kvaerner Energy engineering in Clydebank have shown that it is possible to stand up and fight against redundancies and job insecurity.
The 270 workers barred senior management
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Letters
Letters
I HOPE all those who took part in the London Socialist Alliance campaign realise what they have achieved... |
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In the service of the diamond firms
THE BIGGEST British armed intervention since the Falklands War of 1982 is pouring into the West African country of Sierra Leone... |
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Break those chains
BILL Clinton's favourite novelist-that is how black American writer Walter Mosley is portrayed in the media....
Politicians want to jail these people
HERE ARE some of the refugees politicians want to lock up in detention camps.
They get food and lodgings for a few days before being scattered to various towns in Britain under New Labour's...
Can congestion charges work?
WARNING signals about global warming "are flashing red".
"The world is still proceeding at a reckless pace towards disaster." So said the UK Round Table on Sustainable Development last week...
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Resisting the rule of capital
"AT NIGHT the rabble were very
tumultuous. The mob paraded the whole town from east to west,
obliging everybody to illuminate, and breaking the windows of
such as did not do it immediately. The windows of the Mansion
House were demolished all to pieces."... |
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A book for Robin Cook
THE BRITISH military adventure in Sierra Leone summons up memories of an earlier US escapade in Somalia, on the other side of the African continent...
Inside story on the Met
RACIST, SEXIST, homophobic, anti working class and corrupt are just some of the words we associate with the Metropolitan Police...
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Fury against Ford
The number of Socialist Worker workplace sales and the number of papers sold are both increasing... |
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Big challenge for socialists
DELEGATES FROM Socialist Workers Party (SWP) branches across Britain met on Sunday.
They discussed how socialists should respond to exciting and challenging political developments...
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Councils
EVERY WORKER in Liverpool City Council has received a redundancy notice and a letter inviting them to apply for voluntary severance.
The council wants 536 voluntary redundancies...
Anger at Blair getting hotter
"WE ARE now entering the fourth year of a Labour government. As a member of the Labour Party and a trade unionist, I am bitterly disappointed...."
Harry Stanley
THE JUSTICE for Harry Stanley campaign picketed the Hackney Community Police Consultative Group last week....
NATFHE
THE COLLEGE lecturers' NATFHE union has met with further education management over pay...
Schools
OVER
75 teachers representing 35 schools attended the first meeting
of STOPP, the grassroots campaign against performance related
pay...
Trades councils
THIS year's trades council conference, attended by around 100 delegates, was very angry...
Anti Nazi League
LOCAL PEOPLE, mobilised by the Anti Nazi League (ANL), forced the Nazi National Front (NF) to cancel a march in East Anglia on Saturday of last week...
Right attempt hijack
"IT IS all cost, cost, cost-putting money before people's wellbeing."
That is how GMB union member Bill Quinn described the threat from Havering Labour council in east London to sell off the borough...
Students
STUDENTS AT the University of Kent occupied the Canterbury campus's senate building for 24 hours last week...
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Lessons of a betrayal
ELECTRICIANS AT Pfizer's plant in Sandwich in Kent have voted to end their dispute after six weeks of determined struggle...
Many fronts against Souter
BUS DRIVERS in three Stagecoach companies are turning the screws on millionaire owner Brian
Souter...
UNISON
A SENSE of outrage has greeted the latest attempt by leaders of the public sector UNISON union to attack leading socialists and activists...
Postal workers
POSTAL WORKERS in many parts of Britain staged lightning strikes and protests last week against the implementation of the "Way Forward" agreement which was narrowly forced through earlier this year.
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Sellafield
CONTRACT workers involved in a dispute over bonuses continued picketing as they struck for the third week running at Sellafield last week...
AUT
THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers summer conference met in Eastbourne last week against a backdrop of threatened compulsory redundancies in many universities...
Scottish Power
WORKERS at Scottish Power, members of the AEEU, have voted overwhelmingly for strike action...
Public meeting
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Union backing for protest statement continues to grow
THE CONFERENCE of the firefighters' FBU union last week were the latest to back the statement launched at the National Union of Journalists conference which condemns press and politicians...
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