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"Carnage for the public services"
Mark Serwotka, PCS union General Secretary
By a civil servant
On Monday 12 July Gordon Brown announced the axing of 100,000 civil service jobs. Just like that. It is a job cut programme on a par with the butchery that was done to the mining industry in the last twenty years.
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By Clive Bradley
In the last days of June, two days before it had been scheduled, the occupation of Iraq officially ended and a new government was installed.
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By Susan Jackson
Last week Tory reactionaries in the House of Lords added a wrecking amendment to Government proposals for Civil Partnership legislation for same-sex couples. The amendment called for the rights that would be available to same-sex couples to be available to those who are carers.
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Seven years after Blair's New Labour Party formed its ostentatiously anti-Labour "Labour" government, there are signs at last that the trade unions are beginning to call the Blairites to account.
It is not, in all conscience, before time.
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By Pablo Velasco
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This year's Workers' Liberty summer school was held on 3 and 4 July in Archway, north London. Nicole Ashford reports
There was a wide range of debates on current issues, as well as discussions on historical topics.
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South West London No Sweat
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By Maria Exall
The launch conference of the Labour Representation Committee was held on Saturday 3 July. Over 300 delegates packed out the TUC Congress Centre to discuss key policy issues and debate the future of the Labour Party.
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Ciao
For three weeks they drifted in the Mediterranean because no European country was willing to take them in. Then the 37 men - reportedly Sundanese refugees - made it to the safety of an Italian concrete shed surrounded by barbed wire.
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Alex Gordon, from the South Wales and the West region of the seafarers' and railworkers' union RMT, and Billy Hayes, the General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union, contributed to our debate on working class political representation at our Ideas for Freedom Summer school on 3-4 July. We print extracts from their speeches below
