Right wingers wheeled out a well-worn cliché to explain the riots last week—the underclass. "London riots: the underclass lashes out," read one Daily Telegraph headline, while the Financial Times said the riots were "the intifada of the underclass".
Youth workers at Oxfordshire county council are set to strike on Tuesday of next week over job cuts and service closures. This is the first in a series of walkouts, which will hit David Cameron’s Witney constituency.
There are urgent solidarity tasks which every trade unionist and activist can take now to support Yunus Bakhsh.
Thousands took to the streets to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) pride in Brighton on Saturday.
Journalists in South Yorkshire are continuing their all-out strike. Their action began on 15 July.
A taxi driver who detectives thought had information about Lynette White’s murder was warned "to keep his mouth shut", a court heard.
Asylum seeker James Fallah-Williams reached the 14th day of a hunger strike on Monday in protest at his treatment by the UK Border Agency.
Hundreds of Travellers living at Dale Farm in Essex are fighting Basildon council’s plans to evict them.
Former Unite union leader Tony Woodley last week urged workers at the Bombardier train manufacturing firm to keep fighting for their jobs.
Workers at the Amey rail contractor are in dispute over pay and conditions.
The riots have lifted the lid on the routine police harassment, racism and deprivation that is the daily life of thousands of young people in Britain.
In Birmingham, where three young Muslim men died after being hit by a car during the riots, there were fears that it might stir up animosity between Asian and African‑Caribbean people.
