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March for Rover as devastation threatens across Midlands
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News
How safety cuts killed Simon Jones
THE FAMILY of a 24 year old student, Simon Jones, who was killed at work, won an important battle in the high court last week...
New report slams Britain's spray happy police
The PCA says, "If CS spray is used at close range it may cause burns to the eyes and face." Every force in England and Wales except three uses CS spray....
Gearing up for Rover demo
THE ATMOSPHERE across the Midlands was electric this week as a groundswell of support erupted for Rover workers and the march to save their jobs...
Bankrolling the bigots
Brian
Souter, the boss of Stagecoach, and his sister, Ann Gloag, are the richest people in Scotland, worth £565 million...
£800 an hour grabber
THE NEW Labour peer in charge of hunting down benefit fraud earns up to £800 an HOUR for his work as a barrister...
Water rats
ALCHEMY announced its new chairman last week. It is Brandon Gough He is a fat cat who got £120,000 a year for a two day week as head of the privatised Yorkshire Water.
Dark clouds
Homeless are chucked out
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What
we think
After the march step up the fight
The last week has been a turning point for many people. Never again will they feel secure in their job. A crazy market system is bringing more job losses, more poverty, more suffering and more despair...
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Comment
Don't leave the pound to the bankers
MUCH OF the media proclaimed last week's budget as a
triumph...
Inside the
system
Blair's fat cat failures
AS TONY Blair threatens to send in
private businessmen to run hospitals, look at the record of
those thrusting entrepreneurs who Blair has favoured in the
past.
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Thousands more face jobs axe
Ford plans massive job cuts to jack up profits despite the fact it has a "war chest" of £13 billion and is about to buy Land Rover for £2 billion... |
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Letters
Fight to free Cambridge Two
Their crime was to have run a
centre, Winter Comfort, at which it was alleged that drug dealing had taken place. At no point was it alleged that Ruth and John had been dealing in drugs themselves, but...
Obituary
SALFORD Socialist Workers Party comrades were shocked and saddened by the premature death of Gary Jeffrey recently... |
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Strikes force out French Blunkett
STRIKES AND protests scored a major victory in France this week. Prime minister Lionel
Jospin, who leads the French equivalent of the Labour Party in Britain, was forced to ditch two key cabinet
ministers...
Blair's friend put in
VLADIMIR
PUTIN, the butcher of Chechnya, won the election for president
of Russia on Sunday, and swiftly announced that his first
foreign visit will be to see Tony Blair...
Victory in the air at Boeing
BOEING WORKERS in the US have won a brilliant victory after nearly six weeks on all-out strike. Nearly 20,000 white collar engineers and technicians at the giant airplane company marched back to work ...
Stab in back
TWO MASS meetings, 800 and 1,200 strong, of Vienna University students voted last week to scale their occupation down... |
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Rover Longbridge closure threatens devastation
SOCIALIST
WORKER reporter SAM ASHMAN and photographer JESS HURD
travelled round Birmingham and the West Midlands talking to
people about their reaction to the threat to Longbridge and why
they are marching on Saturday.
Nationalisation-how it could work
NEW LABOUR says it is unable to stop the loss of 50,000 jobs in the West Midlands and the decimation of the car industry. But the government could do something. It could nationalise
Rover...
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How we can fight for jobs and win
THE
THREAT of mass redundancies at Rover and the spectre of
economic devastation throughout the West Midlands has raised
the question of how workers can fight mass closures... |
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In
my view
Poison in this fruit
THE
FIRST time I saw the film A Clockwork Orange it was on a dodgy
pirate video round a mate's house one drunken Friday night.
Reviews
Police have a licence to kill
Sheena was badly injured when a Metropolitan police van ploughed into her in February last year. She was in a coma for three days, in hospital for nine weeks and suffered serious brain injuries...
Preview
THE DEFIANT ONES (1.45pm,
Fri, C4). Great film from the 1950s about two escaped prisoners starring Tony Curtis and Sidney
Poitier. Curtis's character is forced to confront his racism to flee the
chain
gang...
Got you under my skin
THE FILM Being John Malkovich is a bizarre comedy that's well worth seeing...
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Furious in Brum
THE
MOOD in the West Midlands round Saturday's march is electric...
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Blair's reforms open up market in NHS
BROWN'S BUDGET will benefit the
rich...
Unionist vote threatens hopes for peace
NORTHERN Ireland's Unionists have shown they are not prepared to make even the smallest concession to achieve peace...
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Today's news is 'we're on strike'
AROUND 300 members of the NUJ and BECTU unions at STV and Grampian Television were set to strike on Wednesday against a pay freeze, wage cuts and redundancies...
Bus workers
STAGECOACH BUS workers across Ayrshire were on strike again on
Monday...
Postal workers
AROUND 800 postal workers across Edinburgh were on unofficial strike on Tuesday...
Colleges
LECTURERS AT Northumbria University launched a ban on marking last week in protest...
Anti-deportation
A
FAMILY of Roma Gypsies from the Czech Republic who have settled
successfully in the north east of England are fighting their
deportation.
Councils
HACKNEY councillors in east London called three vanloads of police last week to intimidate parents and young children lobbying a meeting over nursery cuts...
Students
AROUND 300 students
marched on the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff last week...
Rail
THE train drivers' ASLEF union is threatening to ballot members who work on
Eurotunnel. For years Eurotunnel has refused to recognise any trade unions...
On strike for jobs?
WORKERS AT Goss Graphic Systems in Preston have voted for industrial action to stop job losses...
J18
ANGEL MAKOLY, a student, has been jailed for two years on
violent disorder charges arising out of the J18 demonstration
against capitalism in the City of London last summer.
Electricians
SOME 250 electricians at the Norfolk and Norwich PFI hospital
site have been sacked after they struck unofficially. The
workers walked out after the contractor, Crown House, cut travel
allowances.
Blunkett panics
EDUCATION
secretary David Blunkett is panicking over his plan for
performance related pay for teachers.
Anti-Globalisation Network
AROUND
100 people attended a meeting called by the Anti-Globalisation
Network last weekend to discuss building on the mood after
Seattle.
NATO's bloody war
ABOUT 300 people attended a rally in central London on Friday of last week to commemorate the anniversary of the start of NATO's bombing of Serbia and Kosovo. The meeting was called by the Committee f...
In brief
Justice for Christopher Alder
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Socialists campaign in London elections
CAMPAIGNERS FOR the London Socialist Alliance (LSA) are mobilising people for the Greater London Assembly election on 4 May. The LSA is backing Ken Livingstone for mayor and is contesting all the seat...
Solidly behind Sarah
"EVERYBODY
realises that if they can get rid of Sarah they can get rid of
anybody. You've got to protect your union rep. Now we need to
get everyone else involved."
Picket of the asset stripper Alchemy |
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More media lies on refugees
"FURY AS 'Refugee' Beasts Rape Girl". That was the Sun headline last week. It was the latest example of the media's lies designed to whip up hatred against refugees fleeing
persecution."...
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