Teachers at Newton-le-Willows primary school in St Helens began a two-day strike on Tuesday of this week.
Around 90 education activists gathered at an excellent Education For Liberation conference in Camden, north London, last Saturday.
Elections have begun in the lecturers’ UCU union for national officer and national executive committee positions.
Police are investigating former senior Conservative figures and other prominent people over allegations of sexually abusing boys in a guest house in the early 1980s.
More than 100 branches and workplaces of the Unite union have nominated blacklisted engineer Jerry Hicks to be their new general secretary.
The fight to save 12 London fire stations threatened with closure stepped up a notch last week. First the Fire Authority that runs the London Fire brigade voted against the cuts proposed by fire brigade bosses.
Jack Winder spent over three decades spying on people for the Economic League – a shadowy organisation set up in 1919 to combat Bolshevism.
It was standing room only at Socialist Worker’s London meeting to discuss year three of the Egyptian Revolution this week.
Ballot papers will land on the doormats of quarter of a million civil service workers this week.
Teachers in the NUT union have demanded their union leadership calls strikes at a series of angry union reps’ meetings across Britain.
Workers in the Unite union are set to be balloted for strikes at one of London’s largest housing associations.
