This week’s budget will see the mainstream parties and the media agree that there is no alternative to huge cuts in public spending.
The Bolton News is reporting that a man was stabbed in the shoulder with a "cut-throat" blade after trying to stop his friend being attacked by alleged supporters of the English Defence League who had earlier been protesting in Bolton.
Socialist Worker can exclusively reveal a secret document from Tube bosses outlining a planned attack on London Underground workers jobs and conditions.
BA flew 32 empty long haul flights from Heathrow airport yesterday.
With 80 percent of cabin crew standing strong on the first day of the BA stoppage, Unite has issued an update of how the strike is biting so far, which reveals that BA's much-vaunted contingencies plans are failing:
Up to one thousand students and workers marched to Downing Street today in a buoyant protest against education cuts.
Striking cabin crew at British Airways (BA) won tremendous support from fellow BA workers, other airport workers, trade unionists and climate campaigners on their picket lines today.
BA cabin crew started a three-day strike this morning. They are fighting to stop attacks on jobs, pay, conditions and their Unite union. The picket lines are electric. Pickets cheer as cars beep their horns in support. Even some of the police are giving the thumbs up!
6.49pm: From BoltonNearly all anti-fascist protesters who were arrested in Bolton during the demonstrations have now been released. Most have not been charged or have been fined £80.
In the weeks leading to the general election Stop the War is organising debates on the war in Afghanistan.
Unite union officials have confirmed that a three-day strike of British Airways cabin crew will go ahead. It begins tomorrow.
