Reservoir campaign makes a big splash Campaigners in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, have beaten back plans to drain Cupwith reservoir into a muddy puddle.
The Tories are at war with millions of benefits claimants.
Parliament was about to vote on deep cuts to benefits that millions rely on as Socialist Worker went to press.
Unemployed people will be forced to work or lose their benefits under plans unveiled by Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls.
Over 100 members of the Usdaw union at the Sainsbury’s distribution centre in Sherburn in Elmet, Leeds, have defected to the Unite union.
Thousands of Department for Transport workers struck at 50 sites across Britain on Friday of last week over a threat to close DVLA offices. The workers, members of the PCS union, walked out for 24 hours against the plans.
Trade union activist Finola Kelly has won an Employment Tribunal case against the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
Workers at the 2 Sisters Food Group in the West Midlands won an important victory last month.
The fight is on for workers at Caerphilly County Borough Council in the South Wales Valleys.
Did senior Tory and other prominent figures rape children in a south west London guest house in the early 1980s?
The Tories hoped to dismantle the welfare state in the 1980s but were scared of the possible reaction to their plans, files reveal.
Dunston school Teachers at Dunston school in Chesterfield struck on 19 and 20 December over intrusive appraisals and monitoring. The action followed five days of strikes earlier in December.
