The National Union of Students (NUS) executive has decided to back demands from student activist groups for a national demonstration in defence of education.
Some 6,000 people in Scotland will be forced to rely on food handouts, according to the Trussell Trust charity. Last week job centres were told to send poor families to the charity’s food banks.
Ten people who were imprisoned after the riots in Britain this August appealed against their sentences on Monday of this week.
Trade union activists are organising a conference on Saturday 19 November. It is shaping up to be a key event in the run-up to the 30 November mass strikes.
Hacking: fresh police links News International paid Neil Wallis, former deputy editor of the News of the World, for "crime exclusives" while he was working for the Metropolitan Police.
Seven education unions are preparing for a mass lobby of parliament on Wednesday 26 October to protest at the government’s pensions assault.
Trade unionists in Worthing, on the south coast, are preparing for the 30 November strikes.
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis set the Labour Party conference alight on Monday, winning an unexpected standing ovation.
Blue Labour. The Purple Book. Or maybe Red Ed?
Can we really beat the Tories? That question is being asked in workplaces, union meetings and streets up and down the country.
Victimised Unite bus convenor Abdul Omer Mohsin has his Employment Tribunal on 7 November.
Elderly people from the Caribbean Senior Citizens Association marched on Haringey council last week.
