Anti-racists scored a crucial victory over the British National Party (BNP) last Saturday, as they first outnumbered and then blocked a planned march by the fascist party in central London.
British National Party fuhrer Nick Griffin has accepted police instructions to move the Nazis’ London protest tomorrow from Woolwich to Whitehall.
A meeting at Lewisham Islamic Centre in south London last night, Wednesday, discussed how to counter the Nazi British National Party’s (BNP) plan to go there from Woolwich on Saturday.
The UCU lecturers’ union was set to hold its annual congress from Wednesday of this week. It will be an opportunity to discuss what kind of union higher and further education needs for the 21st century.
Teachers at Uplands Junior School in Leicester struck on Tuesday of last week over job cuts. Eight teaching assistants could lose their jobs.
Teachers at Copland school in Wembley, north west London, struck on Thursday of last week against plans to turn the school into an academy.
Over 100 people joined a march and rally called by the FBU firefighters’ union to defend Belsize Fire station in north London last Saturday.
Cleaners employed by Mitie at Manchester airport struck for the second time in a month on Friday of last week, against a £90 a month pay cut.
Bus drivers in the Unite union working for Bus Vannin on the Isle of Man began a 12-day strike on Saturday of last week. They are fighting wage cuts of up to £3,000 per year.
Civil service workers in the PCS union have voted overwhelmingly to hold a national strike at the end of this month.Workers were voting at the union's annual conference in Brighton last week.
Delegates held a lively debate on a potential merger with the Unite union.
