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Revolt reaches heart of Labour
NEW
LABOUR'S drive for privatisation has shocked the entire trade
union movement. Chancellor Gordon Brown spelled out the
government's plans for its second term at the weekend...
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Racist thugs ignited riot
"I
HATE to say we told you so. This is what happens when 4,000
people vote for Nazis. The British National Party go on the
offensive." That was the comment from Helen, who lives near
Burnley, after the riots in the town last weekend...
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What we
think
Take on the real enemy together
THE ERUPTION of racism in Burnley is frightening. It follows large votes for the Nazi British National Party
(BNP) in both Burnley and Oldham. The pattern of events in both towns is strikingly
similar...
Marxism 2001
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Comment
Tripping up Third World AIDS victims
TONY BLAIR was quick to accuse the protesters at Gothenburg of failing to understand that the growth of world trade benefits the poor...
Inside the
system
Is this the future of your pension?
THE COLLAPSE of the Independent Insurance company last week has provided a glimpse into the murky dealings of City fat cats. Yet these are the people New Labour wants to put in charge of our pensions...
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News of the
world
35,000 march in Barcelona
THOUSANDS of people demonstrated against the World Bank in Barcelona in Spain last weekend. This is despite the fact that the World Bank, one of the main enforcers of neo-liberal policies...
Macedonia
WESTERN GOVERNMENTS were desperately trying to impose a ceasefire on government forces and Albanian guerrillas in Macedonia at the start of this week...
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Letters
Abuse of power
I WENT to Gothenburg to protest against undemocratic organisations such as the World Bank, WTO and
IMF...
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'Beyond Thatcher'
TONY BLAIR last week pledged his government would embark on "the most fundamental reform of public services for many years"...
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Heading for a
fight against New Labour
THE NEW Labour government is on a collision course with public
sector workers. That was dramatically underlined last week at the
conference of UNISON-Britain's biggest trade union, with 1.3 million
members...
Sickness in the service
THE NHS is institutionally racist and the medical profession runs "a white man's register" with "jobs for the boys". These are some of the findings of a study by the King's Fund,
Racism in Medicine...
What's behind Belfast riots?
THE SCENES of rioting on the streets of Belfast in Northern Ireland will have shocked many people...
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Lancashire's radical history
THE RECENT election boost for the Nazi British National Party in Oldham has thrown the Lancashire town into the news. It has also exposed a long history of racism towards the Asian community...
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In my view
Hip hop comes out
"I FOUGHT my battles, and I'm
keepin' it real-cause real ain't straight if you're gay. And I'm not the first gay rapper, anyway. I'm just the first to admit it." These are the words of
Cashun...
Reviews
They'd so like to hit Asians for six
"MOB RULE", "maniacs", "mayhem," screamed the newspapers. Familiar media abuse of May Day protesters and the like, only this time the victims were the Pakistani fans attending a one-day cricket series...
An unwinnable war
INVESTIGATIVE journalist Nick Davies has struck a mighty blow over the last two weeks against the official hypocrisy surrounding drug use. Two major newspaper articles and a documentary on Channel 4 ...
No welcome to Britain
DURING THE election campaign the Guardian ran an excellent series of articles on asylum and immigration. These have now been republished, along with some extra information, in a 100-page booklet...
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Socialist
Worker news
Not in unison with New Labour
DELEGATES AT the UNISON union conference sent a clear message against privatisation to New
Labour. That mood of revolt flowed over into the sales of Socialist
Worker...
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Council workers
OVER 1,000 UNISON members were due to hold two more days of strike action next week in Sefton social services department on
Merseyside. The battle is over the closure of five care homes...
GlaxoSmithKline
OVER 400 GlaxoSmithKline workers marched through Speke on Saturday to protest over the drug company's plans to hive off its Liverpool factory with the possible loss of 700 jobs...
Solectron
ANGRY workers will march in Newport, South Wales, this weekend over 520 threatened job losses at
Solectron. The multinational company makes electronic products...
Electricians
ELECTRICIANS AT the site for the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary struck on Monday and Friday of last week in an official dispute over bonus payments. Over 100 workers picketed the main entrance...
PCS
SEVERAL
hundred civil servants, mainly in the PCS union, in tax
collection offices walked out unofficially last week in protest
against management's plans to privatise a number of services...
Post
POSTAL WORKERS in several offices in east London and Essex are striking on Monday of each week over problems with the bonus scheme...
Bolton
TALKS BETWEEN management at Bolton council and representatives of the UNISON union were due to take place this week over an ongoing dispute which has already seen a one-day strike earlier this
month...
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College workers
PEOPLE pressure mounted on a Glasgow college board of managers last week. On the Thursday a spontaneous protest by further education workers took place...
Rail
DELEGATES TO the ASLEF train drivers' union conference met in Scarborough last week just as the Cullen report into the disaster at Ladbroke Grove in October 1999 was
published...
Gothenburg-what next?
EIGHTY PEOPLE attended a Globalise Resistance forum in central London on Saturday to hear eyewitness reports from the Gothenburg anti-capitalist
protests...
Anti-racism
REFUGEES IN Liverpool took part in a seven-day hunger strike last week to highlight the appalling conditions in the flats where they live...
Defend Council Housing
SOME 60 representatives from the key areas threatened with housing privatisation met in Birmingham on Saturday...
Gap protest
LAST SATURDAY 20 people picketed the Gap store in the Metro centre in
Gateshead, Tyneside...
Church landlords
SOME
150 people gathered outside Lambeth Palace, official residence
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, on Wednesday of last week to
protest at the decision of the Church Commission to charge
market rents for 1,590 flats in the SE1 area of London...
Round-up
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Socialist Alliance
SOCIALIST Alliances across England and Wales have been holding forums, meetings and debates on the way forward for the alliance after the election. They have been a great success...
Celebrating refugees
THE
BEGINNING of International Refugee Week and the 50th anniversary
of the signing of the Geneva Convention was marked with meetings
and events across Britain...
Errol McGowan inquest
A TOP pathologist has attacked Telford police's alleged assumption that Errol McGowan hanged himself. Dr Nat Carey, called by the coroner on Friday of last week as an expert witness...
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Action threat has the rail bosses on run
TRAIN operating companies retreated last week in the face of threatened strikes called by the rail workers' RMT union for Monday of this week...
Postal workers fight privatisation
POSTAL WORKERS in London are gearing up for a new round of strikes just as their bosses are pressing ahead with
privatisation. Workers at the NDO office in north London are poised to strike on Friday ...
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