News In brief...

★ Happy New Year to all those involved in worker’s struggles. Postal workers in Bristol and London civil service workers striked over pay and employment rights in January; Luton Vauxhall plant saw a massive demo against closure on Jan 20th ; Hackney council workers will strike for 3 days against privatisation and march on Parliament on Jan 30th . Source: Indymedia.

★ Corporate Watch’s briefing on Dalgety Agriculture is now out of date. The Dalgety group has sold off it’s animal feed business mainly to Advanced British Nutrition (ABN), which trades as J Bibby Agriculture, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods Plc. Contact Corporate Watch 01865 791391 mail@corporatewatch.org.

★ The Polish Prime Minister Buzek was pied on Jan 19th in Wroclaw in protest against health care reforms.

★ Tony Blair was tomatoed on Jan 9th at the opening of the City of Bristol College. Fruit and veg were hurled in protest against sanctions on Iraq.

★ Urgent appeals for Witnesses for Mayday and N30. An attempt is being made to build a case against the legality of policing at the London Mayday 2000 protest. Tim Green of Bernberg & Co. Tel: 0207 911 0166 is keen to talk to anybody who was held in Trafalgar Square under Section 60 arrested or preferably not. Your help may make the difference in a possible prison sentence. Cock Tavern, Euston, anybody who witnessed the events leading up to the arrests of 7 anti-fascists contact Tony Martin of Moss & Co. Tel: 0208 986 8336.

★ On Jan 31st animal lib activist Charlotte Lewis was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to sending hate mail to staff of Huntingdon Life Sciences. Charlotte was caught after the police did DNA tests on the saliva on the back of the stamps. See ‘prisoners’ for her address.

★ Over 150 posters about Nestle and baby milk have appeared in Bristol. The city’s new cinema complex at the harbour-side development is sponsored by Nestle.

★ An HSBC window in Leeds got bricked in December.

★ Visit www.freenorwich.co.uk for radical news, views and jam recipes from the fine folk of Norfolk.