A strike ballot by workers at British Telecom (BT) was cancelled this week after bosses threatened the CWU union with a legal challenge.
Teachers in the NUT union at St Aloysius College, in Islington, north London, took their second day of strike action on Thursday of last week.
"I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are wrong. These wars are illegal and we shouldn’t be out there," says Ross.
"When I was in Colchester at military prison I shared a cell with Joe Glenton," says Ross. "Joe was jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan."
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned Tony Blair three months before the Iraq war that an invasion would be illegal, secret memos showed last week.
The Tory government says it has set a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan—but then said it hadn’t.
Tuesday 13 July will see a landmark appeal in the Royal Courts of Justice.
The Tories are threatening to cut 40 percent of the public sector as they slash and burn their way through our services.
The Tories have declared war on the working class—and it is the biggest struggle we have faced since the mid-1980s, when the miners took on Margaret Thatcher.
The British army uses up and spits out young working class men in pursuit of their bloody, illegal wars.
The reality of the cuts is starting to hit home.
Low paid workers are increasingly struggling to get by because of soaring inflation, research suggests.
