As we go to press (Monday 26/1) we hear that a mass meeting of the Liverpool dockers has voted 70-30 to end the dispute on the same terms as rejected in the ballot towards the end of last year.
This appears to be mainly because the stewards could see no way forward for the dispute, having reached a dead end with their efforts to get the TGWU to take up their cause, and reports that dockers on the East Coast of the USA had called off their planned solidarity action.
The next issue of Socialist Outlook will carry a full analysis of the dispute and its ending.
Róisin
McAliskey Roisin McAliskey's attendance in person, the courts have finally agreed that she should be commited for extradition to Germany.
Strange as this may seem, this is in some ways a step foward for the campaign in that now direct pressure can be brought to bear on Jack Straw who holds her fate in his hands.
Roisin and her baby daughter are still in Maudsley psychiatric hospital trying to recover from the traumas she has been subject to since her incarceration.
She will have no chance of recovery If she is sent to Germany - where the legal process could take up to two years.
Yet there is clear evidence that she could not have commited the crime for which she is wanted - proof that she was at her workplace at the time - and no proof that she is indeed the person sought for the bombing of Osnabruck.
Stop this fit-up now and send your protests and those of your organisations to Jack Straw at: The Home Secretary, 50 Queen Anne's Gate. London SW, England. to urge him not to extradite Roisin McAliskey.
Róisin McAliskey