Following the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the nuclear power industry has the almost impossible task of justifying its existence.
The governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has passed a bill to remove the trade union rights of some 175,000 workers in the US.
Discrimination against women and sexual harassment has been entrenched in mainstream Egyptian culture. It’s treated as a joke. Everywhere we go we face verbal harassment.
The Day X for the NHS demonstration in London last week marked a new way of organising that has implications for health workers across Britain.
Many people who are horrified by what Western intervention has done in Iraq or Afghanistan still see no alternative to supporting a no-fly zone over Libya.
Muslims are demonised for every ill in society. We are told that they refuse to fit in, don’t speak enough English, don’t adopt British values and harbour extremists.
University lecturers have voted for strikes. Some will strike in the week before 26 March.
It was shocking to read the response of liberal gay journalist Johann Hari to the recent appearance of "gay free zone" stickers carrying slogans from the Koran in Tower Hamlets, east London.
As Colonel Gaddafi ruthlessly slaughters his opponents some are calling for a revival of "humanitarian intervention"—a military response by other countries under the pretext of safeguarding human rights.
The Tory government looks a little bit weaker after a series of small but significant U-turns over the last week.
The Tory-Lib Dem government argues that "tough choices" are necessary to pull Britain out of recession.
This week, the UCU union is about to launch the first of five ballots in defence of pensions, jobs, conditions and pay in higher and further education.
