Teachers in Oldham struck on Thursday of last week over the council’s plan to decimate services to some of the town’s most vulnerable children.
Teachers in Rotherham stepped up their campaign against compulsory redundancies last week by striking for three days—and leading a 500-strong march in Sheffield against Tory cuts.
Friern Barnet secondary school in Barnet, north London, suspended teacher and NUT union branch president, Sue Caldwell, on Monday 17 January.
The biggest teachers meeting in Tower Hamlets for more than 35 years last week unanimously voted to ballot all NUT union members in the east London borough for strikes against cuts.
Remploy workers have reacted with fury to bosses’ demands for voluntary redundancies.
Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union want to strike against job cuts and office closures in the Driving Standards Agency (DSA).
An alliance of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World and the police means that Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan was sentenced to three years in jail last week.
The working class movement in Britain faces its biggest challenge for decades. If successful the assault launched by the Con-Dem Coalition will devastate the lives of millions of people.
Thousands of students and workers marched through London and Manchester on Saturday to protest against student fees, education cuts and the scrapping of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).
Last weekend’s protests have put the student movement back on the streets.
Can the army be on the side of the people in a revolutionary situation? That’s a question posed sharply by events in Egypt.
Anti-racists are determined to stage a united and defiant show of strength against the racist English Defence League (EDL) in Luton this Saturday 5 February.
