Tell Tories and Labour

End the drugs hypocrisy Legalise cannabis!

Treatment not jail for 'hard drug' addicts
Start a war on poverty * see pages 2 & 3

'War' that fuels drugs trade
ANN WIDDECOMBE'S rant at the Tory conference spectacularly blew up in her face when eight of her Tory colleagues admitted they had used cannabis...
Blair's Britain
HUNDREDS OF workers face job cuts as two giant employers announced redundancies last week...

Inside the system
Olé! The bulls are on strike
THE SPIRIT of protest is reaching all sorts of places. Spain was in uproar last week after all 13 bulls in a bullfight went on strike...
Comment
Milosevic- a socialist?
THE MORNING Star (the paper of Britain's very small Communist Party) and the mainstream press found themselves in full agreement last week...

Letters
New Labour's stubbing out rights
TOWER Hamlets New Labour council in east London is attempting to deprive its workers of smoking breaks...

'Time for direct action'
TWO POUNDS 25p a week extra next year. That's what pensioners will get if the government continues with its present pensions formula, it was announced this week...
Serbian uprising- people's power or workers' power?
AS THE demonstrations in Belgrade were taking place on Thursday of last week, the mainstream media were ecstatic until around 3.30pm...
US hypocrisy on democracy
"ALL WE want for the Serbian people is what we want for people everywhere-the right to choose their leaders." So said US president Bill Clinton last week, hailing the mass demonstrations and strikes that toppled Slobodan Milosevic...

Give the Met a Yardie...
IT IS strange to read a book written to glorify the police but which leaves you with the deepest feelings that the most dangerous criminals roaming our streets may have been paid for...
Culture-is it moving left?
THE CULTURE sections of the newspapers seem obsessed with two things. On the one hand there is the slanging match between dumbing down New Labour and the elitist art world luvvies...
Mad World
"APOCALYPSE-Horror and Beauty" in art is an exhibition well worth seeing...
Generations in chains
ROOTS IS one of those books you cannot put down once you start reading, and then you are sorry when it is finished...
Preview

Dudley NHS strikers battle jobs sell off
HEALTH WORKERS in Dudley are taking on one of the government's flagship policies-the Private Finance Initiative. The 600 ancillary workers are determined to stop their jobs being sold off...

Buses
BUS DRIVERS in Gateshead struck on Friday of last week, forcing 170 buses off the road. The workers, employed by the Go Ahead company, are furious that management has only offered a 4 percent pay rise...
Biwater
THE 700 WORKERS facing the dole at Biwater pipe factory in Clay Cross face a crunch this week...
Stop these scandalous expulsions
AN 80-strong lobby supported long standing union activists Candy Udwin and Dave Carr as they appealed against expulsion from their UNISON union on Monday...
FloPlast
TWO LABOUR MPs joined workers fighting for trade union recognition on a Kent picket line on Wednesday of last week...
Refugees
AROUND 180 demonstrators marched through north London last Saturday to challenge immigration minister Barbara Roche over New Labour's voucher scheme for refugees...
Postal workers
AN ANGRY meeting of members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) was held on Friday of last week to attack plans to relocate work from London. Around 2,000 postal workers' jobs could be lost...
Protests
Socialist Worker Appeal
THANKS TO those who sent money to the Socialist Worker Appeal over the last week, including...
BT
BT WORKERS in London were left in utter confusion by their union leaders last Friday. BT management has been trying to impose when workers can take the half hour shorter working week...
In brief