David Willetts, the Tory universities minister, has told young people who find there are no university courses available because of cuts to retake their A-levels to get better results.
Top army officers are getting a whopping £172 million to send their children to boarding schools.
The UN enquiry into the Israeli army assault on the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla begins this week. Meanwhile the next land convoy leaving London to break the siege of Gaza makes its final plans.
Activists are holding a Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) festival in Kent on Saturday 11 September.
Hundreds of prison educators held a one-day strike on Wednesday of last week against their employer’s attempts to force them to sign a new and dramatically worse contract.
Tram workers in Sheffield plan an all-out strike from Monday after bosses refused to deal with a union rep.
Staff in Southampton libraries in Hampshire have called for a further two days of strikes to be held on Friday of this week and Monday of next week.
The general secretary election in the Unite union is revealing members’ anger at the leadership’s failure to lead a fightback against the attacks workers face.
Steel workers at Corus are voting on an improved national pay offer after a "breakthrough" in negotiations, their union says.
The firefighters’ FBU union warns that fire bosses’ efforts to reduce the amount of money spent on responding to automatic fire alarms could cost lives.
Around 30 housing activists in Camden, north London, met last week to organise a fightback against the wave of Tory attacks on council housing and tenants’ rights.
A group of Jaguar workers have voted for industrial action and rejected a £1,000 transfer bonus to move from Coventry to Birmingham.
