Workers at Southampton City Council have voted to strike to stop bosses forcing through pay cuts, their union announced today (Friday).
Around 200 activists packed into a meeting in London yesterday (Thursday) called by the Defend The Right To Protest group. The diverse gathering was a response to recent attempts by police to criminalise dissent.
Postal workers in London are starting a strike ballot after Royal Mail rejected union plans to save jobs in the capital’s mail centres.
Students are occupying London Metropolitan University against bosses’ plans to axe 70 percent of all the courses at the college.
Governments of all kinds have promised in recent years to break down barriers to social mobility.
Osama Bin Laden is often presented as single-handedly controlling world "terrorism" from a bunker in Afghanistan or Pakistan. It is a myth that has suited both Bin Laden and his enemies.
The war in Afghanistan is in its tenth year. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians have died, and 2,375 foreign troops have been killed, including 1,509 US and 360 British soldiers.
Thousands of trade unionists and other activists celebrated International Workers’ Day last weekend by joining protests in towns and cities across Britain.
Left wing campaigners are standing in this week’s elections to step up the fight against the government’s austerity programme.
Metropolitan police, and other forces across Britain, used the royal wedding to crackdown on "potential protesters".
Up to 200 people attended a public meeting in defence of student protester Bryan Simpson at Strathclyde university last Friday.
Bristol’s streets were again in flames as riots erupted for a second time on Thursday of last week.
