Amicus/Unite: Elect Jerry Hicks as General Secretary
THE ELECTION for the next General Secretary of Amicus/Unite is now well underway, but there have already been many twists and turns.
NI: Unison expel Pat Lawlor
By Peter Hadden An attack on all Unison members THE RIGHT wing leadership of Unison has gone ahead with the expulsion of RVH nursing
NI: Defend Public Transport
By Owen McCracken MANY TRANSLINK workers face an uncertain future after bosses refused to rule out job losses as part of a £11.5 million
NI: How to resist job losses
By Gary Mulcahy FIGURES RELEASED in January reveal Northern Ireland has seen the biggest annual rise in unemployment in 37 years. 12,000 extra people
NI: Nationalise Energy Companies
By Sarah Mair LAST WINTER, over 500 elderly people in Northern Ireland died of the cold because they could not afford to heat their
France – General Strike
By Daniel Waldron “THIS PROTEST is for everyone. I have children, so this is for the future”, said a sacked car worker marching on
Sri Lanka: Stop the slaughter!
By Owen McCracken BETWEEN 250,000 and 400,000 civilians remain trapped in the small area of Northern Sri Lanka still controlled by the Liberation Tigers
Joe Higgins Column: Real Solidarity is United Struggle
IN THE past we typically used the word solidarity to describe working people coming to each other’s assistance against the background of a strike