Increasing union militancy, combined with the government’s continued refusal to ditch right-wing economic dogma, signals dark times ahead for New Labour, argues Richard Seymour.

Global economic turmoil has led to food riots abroad and spiralling inflation in Britain. Michael Bradley and Judith Orr report on the growing resentment towards the crisis-ridden Labour government.

UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, recently passed a resolution promoting solidarity with the occupied Palestinians and calling for divestment from companies complicit in Israel’s occupation. Here is the full text of that resolution.

New Labour’s debts are beginning to worry senior figures in the party. The Independent Working Class Association looks at one considered response, characteristically taken from the world of business.

An alliance of grassroots civil society organizations and technocrats has been created in Iraq, intent on keeping Iraq’s oil in the hands of the people. Ewa Jasiewicz reports

Jack Straw needs to remember that the unions support the Labour Party when it serves working class interests, and not otherwise. The Morning Star reports.

Naftana, the UK support committee for the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, condemns British collusion and participation in the assault on Basra, and calls for a withdrawal of troops.

Drawing on the detailed research of their book ‘New Labour/Hard Labour? Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry’, |Alex Law & Gerry Mooney draw “attention to some of the many ways in which welfare workers are being adversely affected by the restructuring of the welfare state and, more importantly, how they are resisting New Labour in new and significant ways.

From postal workers to policemen, public sector workers have been linking their demands for decent working conditions with the quality of the services they provide and begun to create new alliances. They still need more imaginative thinking, says Gregor Gall, but does this approach provide a way forward for trade unions generally, in the private sector as well as the public?

If Kim Howells’ recent photo op is anything to go by, solidarity with the torturers and executioners of trade unionists is now one of Labour’s core values.

In denying the true extent of aviation’s climate impact, the pilots’ union is betraying its members and the whole point of being a union