A coachload of British Airways cabin crew lobbied parliament today as part of their ongoing dispute with bully boss Willie Walsh.
One GMB delegate asked the Labour candidates how they would defend the Redcar Corus steel workers’ jobs.
Delegates at the Unite union conference last week defied their executive to back many left wing policies.
Henning Mankell, the renowned Swedish crime writer and author of the Wallander series, was on board the Sophia, which formed part of the Gaza Flotilla, when Israeli commandos raided the ship.
At 4pm on Saturday Unite Against Fascism (UAF) activists were dispersing having successfully seen the Welsh Defence League (WDL) bundled off the streets of Cardiff.
17.25 London: George Galloway announced at the rally that a further convoy of aid to Gaza will be launched saying, "On the day after Ramadan expected to begin on 11 August two mighty convoys one by land and one by sea will begin. We will enter together for the mightiest breach of the siege there has ever been. We will end the siege that day. This wall is now tottering we have to break it down ourselves."
"We knew the Israelis were going to attack, or intercept us in some way. At 11pm we had the first contact. A visual warning was that two Israeli warships were approaching us, followed by a third.
Delegates at the Unite union conference overturned the executive council today and passed an emergency motion on the Labour Party leadership.
Hundreds of Cardiff taxi drivers are set to strike this Saturday – one of the city’s busiest days this year – in protest at a racist anti Muslim rally being held by the Welsh Defence League’s (WDL).
The first person from the Freedom Flotilla to arrive back in Britain has said that she believes more than nine people died in the Israeli attack on the humanitarian convoy on Monday.
Delegates took part in a heated debate on the Trident nuclear weapons system on Wednesday afternoon. Delegates called on the government to scrap its plans to replace Trident.
