by Ken Ferguson Knife crime is much in the news these days but it is unusual to read reports of victims who have been stabbed with a weapon that they bought for their assailant. But that is what has happened in the case of New Labour cabinet minister Lord Adonis as he stuck the knife […]
by Richie Venton Two major trade union events in the space of 48 hours demonstrate the seething anger at public sector cuts, the potential for a united resistance across the trade unions, and the potency, increasing popularity and urgent necessity of the Scottish Socialist Party’s alternatives to this assault on jobs, services and conditions. EIS […]
by Richie Venton Royal Mail workers have voted by a record-breaking majority to take national strike action against the concerted assault on their jobs, pay, workloads, the service they deliver to the public – and the attempts to smash the Communication Workers’ Union as a national union. They voted by over 3:1 for national strikes […]
by Tam Dewar – CWU Area Delivery Rep, Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway (in a personal capacity) In a sense of déjà vu, postal members of the CWU have voted three to one for national strike action in Royal Mail Group. A similar strike mandate was given in 2007 over the same issues. Strike action then, over […]
by Richie Venton They poured into Howard Park, Kilmarnock, in their thousands on Sunday, despite the monsoon rain and lashing wind that poured down on Ayrshire for hours before. 20,000 of them according to most press reports. This was the biggest event in Kilmarnock’s modern history, certainly since the town’s team won the cup in […]
by Dusty Miller The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. – Omar Khayyam I fear we are about to be inundated by a plethora of post-mortems, a promiscuity of […]
by Richie Venton & Eddie Truman On Wednesday 28th January 2009 workers for Shaw’s construction contractors at Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Lincolnshire were told by their shop stewards that the new contractor, IREM, an Italian company that a part of the contract on LOR’s HDS3 plant had been awarded to, was refusing to employ […]