New coalition of the left is go

Here is the official launch leaflet for the new coalition to fight the general election.
There will probably be more news on the coalition at tomorrow’s conference on working class representation organsied by the RMT at the Camden Centre.
To download the leaflet as a PDF, click here.

You couldn’t make it up (1)

A story from the “you couldn’t make it up” section.
Many of you may have heard about London Midland Railways having to cancel their services on Sunday because not enough drivers volunteered to do the Sunday shift
The reason? Staff used to get double time on a Sunday. And now they don’t. So no one wanted to [...]

Bob Crow speaks out about Europe (and says a number of other things)

From a two page interview with Bob Crow in Saturday’s The Guardian:
“Crow’s politics are fascinating. He is an internationalist who recently stood in the European elections on an anti-EU ticket as part of a trade union coalition. As far as he’s concerned, the EU is a capitalist conspiracy to bring wage rates down. Does that [...]