Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature. Asia India: Punjab contract sanitation workers demand permanent jobs On Tuesday, members of the Safai Sewaks’ (sanitation workers) Union and the Water Supply and Sewerage Union demonstrated outside Fatehgarh Sahib Municipal Council offices in …

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UK royal family unite for King Charles III’s birthday parade

LONDON, June 17 — Britain’s royal family rounded off King Charles III’s inaugural birthday parade today with a balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace to watch a spectacular fly-past. Three of the king’s young grandchildren — future king Prince George, nine, Prince Louis, five, and Princess Charlotte, eight — joined the …

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Boris Johnson gets new job as Daily Mail columnist

LONDON – Former prime minister Boris Johnson was named as a new columnist for the Daily Mail newspaper on Friday, in a return to a journalistic career that has seen him write for several leading British titles and sacked from one for making up a quote. Johnson, 58, who stood …

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Budleigh Salterton old sorting office could be re-developed

A planning application has been submitted to change the use of the Old Sorting Office at 52-54 Budleigh High Street from B8 Distribution to part retail and part residential.  The plan is to change the sorting office into an antiques dealership, opening up the original front door which now houses a letter …

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