Top union sources have told Socialist Worker that Tory leader David Cameron has declined an invitation to speak at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) annual conference.
The Tories have put Sir Peter Gibson in charge of a torture inquiry, meaning that the man who oversees the activities of the security services will be investigating them.
The inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa heard this week that Colonel Mendonca, commander of 1st Battalion the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, lied about the conditions of prisoners in Iraq.
The bombing that killed at least 43 people in Radwaniya near Baghdad last week as they queued for their wages shows that instability still rocks Iraq.
Seven jailed protesters won appeals against their sentences in the Court of Appeal last week.
BP announced it had succeeded in plugging the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico last week.
US barrister Lynne Stewart has been given ten years in prison after passing on a message from a client, a terror suspect, to his supporters.
Cabin crew at British Airways have voted by more than two to one to reject a shoddy offer from bullying boss Willie Walsh.
The attacks on education are coming thick and fast under the new Tory government.
The five main unions at the BBC met and agreed to call a strike ballot over pensions on Monday of this week.
Top union sources have told Socialist Worker that Tory leader David Cameron has declined an invitation to speak at the Trades Union Congress annual conference.
Hundreds of children, parents and teachers descended on parliament today to protest at Michael Gove’s slashing of more than 700 school rebuilding projects.
