Jeremy Dewar, Vice-Chair of the Campaign for a New Workers Party, reports on significant new call by union leaders for a break from Labour at this year’s CNWP conference more…
The Daily Mirror’s cost of living index shows inflation for most people is soaring by 11.6 percent a year and not the official 3.3 percent of the government’s consumer prices index. Food is up 15 percent, fuel up 22 percent and utility bills up 3 percent ( after two years of double digit rises). A weekly basket of 25 items taken from retailers magazine The Grocer now costs £2,067 a year - £263 more than last June. more…
After terrorising his way to another term as president, Robert Mugabe faces increasing pressure to step down. Keith Spencer charts the history of his regime and argues that it must be overthrown , not by foreign intervention but through the struggle of the workers and peasants of Zimbabwe. more…
After the No vote in Ireland Dave Stockton, editor of Fifth International Journal examines the crisis of the EU. more…
Andy Young of the NSSN steering committee says more and more workers are wising up to the need for an independent organisation for rank and file trade union members more…
Job losses, pensions robbery, real pay cuts, speed-ups and now privatisation...
• No to privatisation - restore the postal monopoly under workers control
• Ballot for escalating action, up to an all out strike, to defend jobs and pensions
• For joint action, locally and nationally, with other public sector unions
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