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Editorial

It doesn't have to be like this

Official inflation figures understate the real extent of rising costs, but even the government's own CPI scheme lays bare the ongoing misery for working people and those dependent on benefits.

Features

A strategy for our victory

by Kevan Nelson

The Con-Dems have had it their way too long. We have to turn this country around

Education for all: let's make it a reality

by Pat Glass MP

How high-quality primary schooling could help solve global poverty

Britain

Transco fined for deadly Scots bungalow explosion

Friday 26 August 2005

THE High Court in Edinburgh slapped a record £15 million fine on gas utility privateer Transco yesterday after it was found guilty of breaching health and safety laws, following an explosion which killed four members of a family six years ago.

Police workers walk out over pay

Friday 26 August 2005

MORE than 3,000 civilian workers at Scotland's eight police forces walked out yesterday in a row over a "wholly insufficient" pay offer.

Right-wing think tank wants more railway privatisation

Friday 26 August 2005

RAIL unions hammered a report calling for greater deregulation and privatisation on the network by the market-fundamentalist Adam Smith Institute yesterday.

School meals staff win compensation from privateer

Friday 26 August 2005

GENERAL union GMB hit out at "profit-obsessed private contractors" yesterday after winning compensation for 17 north London school meals staff.

Yorkshire laundry workers hold one-day walkout

Friday 26 August 2005

AROUND 100 Yorkshire laundry workers stepped up their fight for a living wage with a one-day strike yesterday.

Ugandans vow to stay on hunger strike

Friday 26 August 2005

UGANDAN women fighting deportation at Yarl's Wood detention centre vowed to continue with their hunger strike yesterday after their spokeswoman was released.

Campaign aims to stop terror laws sowing division

Friday 26 August 2005

A JOINT campaign launched yesterday urged ministers and MPs to ensure that government anti-terror measures do not alienate and divide communities.

Family forcibly deported to Malawi

Friday 26 August 2005

HUNDREDS of campaigners besieged Heathrow Aiport yesterday in support of the Kachepa family, who were forcibly deported to Malawi.

US unions stand by sacked British workers

Friday 26 August 2005

GENERAL union T&G welcomed the "unyielding support" for sacked Gate Gourmet workers in Britain yesterday from the US union Unite Here.

Teachers delighted at record GCSEs

Friday 26 August 2005

TEACHING unions congratulated pupils and staff on another record year for GCSE results yesterday, but they stressed that the students who slip through the net must receive greater attention.