Editorial

The message isn't changed

Thursday 02 September 2010

The report from Human Rights Watch on abuses carried out by some of the biggest companies in this country when they expand abroad should give any active trade unionist pause for thought.

Long journey into fiction

Wednesday 01 September 2010

The Waterstones bookshop has excelled itself with its launch of a new work of fiction from an established master in the art.

Pay up and keep paying

Tuesday 31 August 2010

It would appear that both the hysterical Con-Dem coalition and the markets themselves have but a single thought and that's to screw over working people during, and even after, their working lives.

Out with the new Labour

Monday 30 August 2010

The most helpful thing that Baron Mandelson could do for the Labour Party at the moment is to keep his mouth shut.

Exposed as the thugs they are

Sunday 29 August 2010

The English Defence League flagged up Saturday's planned invasion of Bradford for months, telling its alcohol-fuelled racist bootboys that this was the big one.

Obesity isn't that simple

Friday 27 August 2010

Barely a week passes without some expert or another advising us that this or that NHS procedure is unaffordable and should be restricted.

It's up to the unions now

Thursday 26 August 2010

Unite, in common with fellow large unions GMB and Unison, is recommending its members to vote for Ed Miliband in the Labour Party leadership election.

Life-and-death importance

Wednesday 25 August 2010

David Cameron's mansion-trained Liberal Democrat pet Nick Clegg has jumped in quickly to defend the Budget after it was criticised by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Flogging off our NHS

Tuesday 24 August 2010

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's determination to drive through a root-and-branch reorganisation of the National Health Service without consultation speaks volumes for the coalition government's arrogance.

The same old skulduggery

Monday 23 August 2010

It may be too late to resurrect Ed Balls's Labour Party leadership project, but his pledge to campaign with the Communications Workers Union to oppose privatisation of Royal Mail is spot on.