Friday, October 30, 2009

The future of the CWU is at stake

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Billy Hayes, the general secretary of the Communication Worker Union (CWU), denies saying that his organisation was in a stronger position t...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Climate change a systemic crisis

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On land and sea the impacts of climate change intensify. But the UN’s leading climate change official, Yves de Boer, has admitted that the C...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Good bank, bad bank? Peoples bank!

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The European Union (EU) is expected today to approve plans for the Northern Rock bank to be split in two – so-called “good” and “bad” banks....
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The EU, Blair and a sense of disgust

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Amid all the speculation about Tony Blair seeking to become the first president of Europe, any questions about democracy are put to one side...
Monday, October 26, 2009

We are all 'terrorists' now

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As politicians of all shades flail about in the wake of the financial and economic crisis, the growth of the neo-fascist British National Pa...
Friday, October 23, 2009

The challenge facing postal workers

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Just how right postal workers are to fight for their jobs is borne out by today’s figures showing that the British economy, far from “recove...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Emissions of hypocrisy on the increase

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Sonorous Presbyterian tones rumble through the room: “We have fewer than fifty days to save our planet from catastrophe.” Gordon Brown is pr...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

More shocks on the way

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The disarray – and fear – in ruling class circles over the future prospects for the financial system is growing apace. Far from rescuing the...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Taking inspiration from 1989

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The amazing sequence of events that marked the year 1989 which culminated in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall on November 8 continues to ...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Johnson's hypocrisy over BNP

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When Alan Johnson, the home secretary, expresses outrage at the decision of the BBC to invite the neo-fascist British National Party on to i...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Plot to destroy postal union

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New Labour and Royal Mail management have hatched a thinly-disguised plot to destroy the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) if postal worker...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Jobless youth turn to the army

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You see them on trains in North Yorkshire, fresh-faced teenagers struggling with massive kit-bags. Only they are not off to play football or...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Mind the gap

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Despite an agreement to swap half of the 1,200 threatened jobs for a two-year pay freeze and lower pensions, Vauxhall workers in the UK shou...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Parlament's crisis goes from bad to worse

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The present Parliamentary system is fast digging its own grave if yesterday’s events are anything to go by and the danger is that without th...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Italy's sinister power struggle

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The political crisis in Italy is deepening by the day, with Silvio Berlusconi arrogantly rejecting a damning verdict of the Constitutional C...
Friday, October 09, 2009

Postal workers need first-class leaders

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The three to one majority in favour of strike action by postal workers is proof enough that trade unionists are prepared to sacrifice to fig...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

US and EU scupper climate summit

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International talks preparing for the Copenhagen climate summit are in disarray and on the point of collapse, as the science is pushed to on...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Dollar 'time bomb' adds to turmoil

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The reaction to the global meltdown has so far consisted of so many variations on a common theme: governments deepening their debt to provid...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Stop the vandals at the gate!

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Since its foundation in 1984, the Turner Prize has stimulated widespread debate and a popular interest in contemporary art. Tate Britain dir...
Monday, October 05, 2009

The only way to stop the Tories

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As time runs out for the New Labour government, the big question is how do we stop the Tories? The answer is made more difficult by the fact...