A woman jailed for "falsely retracting" allegations that she had been raped six times by her husband is to remain in prison after being refused permission to appeal against her eight-month sentence.
Fast food companies and the drinks industry are helping Tory and Lib Dem ministers draft their health policy.
Right to Work protesters and supporters of the London Coalition Against Poverty gave Iain Duncan Smith and Nick Clegg a warm welcome when they arrived to unveil their Work Fair scheme last week.
More than 150 people marched through central London on Friday of last week demanding justice for Jimmy Mubenga. Jimmy died last month as three G4S private security guards were forcibly deporting him to Angola at Heathrow airport.
Tube workers in the RMT and TSSA unions are continuing their fight against London Underground management’s plans to slash 1,600 jobs.
GMB union members at the Astra Zeneca pharmaceutical firm in Macclesfield, Cheshire, struck on Tuesday of this week—the ninth strike day in their ongoing fight to defend their pensions.
Workers at two London bus companies have rejected miserly pay offers and are moving towards strikes. Drivers at London United are set to strike for 24 hours on Monday after voting by 525 to 295 to reject a revised pay offer.
Strikes by bus drivers at CT Plus in east London have ended, workers have told Socialist Worker.
The election for the general secretary of the Unite union was to end on Friday of this week.
Paramedics at the Great Western Ambulance Service are livid after management forced through changes to their shift system and demanded they sign new contracts.
Hundreds of people joined the debates at the four-day Historical Materialism conference in central London last week. Among the highlights were meetings on the way forward for the women’s movement and the engagement between Marxism and feminism.
