Tory business secretary Michael Fallon will this week announce the most devastating Royal Mail privatisation plans in decades.
Protesters celebrated the 65th birthday of the NHS last Friday. Some 700 hundred protested in York. Caroline Ridgway reports that over 300 marched to celebrate the 65th birthday of Trafford General Hospital—the birthplace of the NHS.
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A bruising week of confrontations, accusations, attacks and withdrawals has exposed the Labour Party’s love-hate relationship with the big trade unions, writes Simon Basketter
We should defend the right of unions to fund political parties. But if Labour wants to get workers’ money it should do something to deserve it, writes Simon Basketter
The unions formed the Labour Party and they should own it, says Jerry Hicks
Statement from the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt, 6 July 2013
Some 170 postal workers in Peterborough have walked out unofficially after a union rep was suspended.
The officers who shot Azelle Rodney could now face prosecution after a damning report from the official inquiry into the killing was released today, Friday. Azelle died after he was shot six times in under two seconds by a police officer in 2005. The report says that there was no “lawful” justification for shooting to kill.
Teachers from two unions struck across the north west of England last week as part of a campaign against government attacks on education. Sadie Robinson reports from Liverpool
Sue Bannister, an NUT member, said workers needed to up the ante against the Tories.
Racists have carried out a wave of attacks on Muslims since the killing of soldier Lee Rigby, reports Annette Mackin
