Monthly Archives: May 2006
OVER 25,000 refugees, workers and youth marched through the centre of Paris on Saturday, demanding, ‘Withdraw the CESEDA’! and ‘Immigrants are not disposable like pieces of rubbish – they are human beings with rights too!’ The CESEDA is known as ‘Sarkozy’s law’ because it has the support of right-wing interior...
‘VICTORY to Gate Gourmet workers! TGWU sack Tony Woodley!’ shouted angry locked-out Gate Gourmet workers as they confronted TGWU leader Woodley before the start of the 12,000 strong TUC May Day march at Clerkenwell Green in London yesterday. The locked-out workers, in the ninth month of their...
ON August 10 2005 Gate Gourmet locked out and dismissed over 760 workers in a pre-planned operation designed to secure the introduction of their company ‘Survival Plan’. The operation immediately ran into huge resistance, when thousands of BA staff walked out in sympathy with the locked-out workers, causing a...
MAY DAY 2006 is historic. It is taking place in a period of an enormous crisis of world capitalism and rapidly developing world revolution. This crisis has driven the imperialist powers into wars to redivide the world, especially in the oil and gas bearing regions of the Middle East, the Gulf...
THE Blair government has finally run out of spin. It is now being destroyed by its own inner contradictions, the chief one being its determination, as a Labour government, to privatise and completely destroy the NHS and the Welfare State which were brought by the 1948 Attlee Labour government. The growing...