Jørn Andersen is from the Climate Movement in Denmark – known as Klimabevægelsen. He is also part of the coordination group of the 12 December Initiative – a broad coalition of organisations preparing for the demonstration at the United Nations (UN) climate summit in Copenhagen on 12 December.
Tens of thousands of people are set to descend on London on 5 December to demand that the government takes serious action to combat climate change.
The Campaign Against Climate Change trade union group has produced a pamphlet to show how the government could create one million green jobs. It is backed by major trade unions, including the RMT, CWU, PCS, TSSA and UCU.
The new college year looks like it will be a volatile one. It has begun with the economic crisis hitting home. Thousands of university applicants have been denied places while the lucky ones have been crammed into overcrowded lecture theatres and accommodation.
The feeling around our office when news of the massive yes vote for national strikes came through can only be compared to the feeling we all had when Margaret Thatcher got kicked out of office in 1990.
Italy’s "Hot Autumn" of 1969 triggered a decade-long battle between the working and ruling classes. It saw migrant, unorganised workers and women take the lead in challenging the old order.
The Tories are back. Labour’s love affair with power and business has laid the basis for what is presented as a changed Conservative Party.
The government has dramatically stepped up its war on young working class people. Gordon Brown wants to force young mothers into "supervised homes" where they will be told "how to raise their children properly".
Kirsty Ann was 17 when she had her baby. She lives with her mother in Glasgow. Kirsty Ann spoke to Sadie Robinson about the reality of life as a teenage mother
What are your experiences of adults?
Tony Blair coined a famous phrase that would come to represent New Labour’s "realistic" approach to crime – "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime".
In 1868 Karl Marx wrote, "Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the female sex."
