Scotland faces more council strikes after local government employers refused to increase a 2.5% pay offer.
Orwell describes the unthinking emptiness behind the rhetoric spouted by the Stalinist hacks of his day: "... prose consists less and less of WORDS chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of PHRASES tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
Slogans of the May 1968 revolt in France. These first appeared mainly on the walls of Paris during May and then spread internationally.
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.
