Editorial
Hands off our postal service
A government guided by common sense would respond to news that publicly owned Royal Mail has increased profits to £403 million by scrapping plans to flog off the service.
Features
Trade unionists will keep fighting for Wales
Wales TUC president sets out the achievements of Welsh workers over the past year - and looks to the battles ahead
Dirty wars
Interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of a chilling new exposé of the US's worldwide war without end
Britain
'Vindictive' officials send family to Malawi
Thursday 25 August 2005
REFUGEE campaigners condemned "vindictive" immigration officials yesterday, after they ruled that the Kachepa family must be deported to Malawi where experts insist that they face severe danger.
Aberdeen workers fear vast pay cuts
Thursday 25 August 2005
THOUSANDS of angry Aberdeen council workers threatened strike action yesterday over swingeing pay cuts.
'Roar like lions' says fired worker
Thursday 25 August 2005
SACKED Rolls-Royce shop steward Jerry Hicks will call on fellow workers to "roar like lions" this afternoon when he addresses a mass solidarity rally in Derby.
Muslim communities need a boost
Thursday 25 August 2005
THE TUC urged ministers to offer a radical programme of help for Muslim communities yesterday, after research showed that they suffer some of the worst poverty and ill-health in Britain.
Clarke unveils thought crime laws
Thursday 25 August 2005
CIVIL liberties campaigners warned yesterday that thousands of people could be kicked out of Britain to face torture or death under Home Secretary Charles Clarke's sweeping deportation programme.
Computer breakdown delays flights from Britain
Thursday 25 August 2005
AN AIR traffic control computer problem caused delays and cancellations of flights to and from British airports yesterday.
Movers fail to inform utility companies
Thursday 25 August 2005
FINANCIAL experts warned yesterday that homeowners are being landed with huge interest charges after failing to inform utility companies and banks of their change of address.
Vicious attack on justice campaign
Wednesday 24 August 2005
RIGHT-WING newspapers launched a poisonous smear campaign against campaigners battling for justice for police execution victim Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday.
Hicks grateful for union solidarity
Wednesday 24 August 2005
VICTIMISED union official Jerry Hicks voiced his heartfelt thanks yesterday to 100 Rolls-Royce engineers in Bristol who have come out on indefinite strike in protest at his sacking.