The hypocrisy involved in the persecution of Yunus Bakhsh, a psychiatric nurse from Tyneside who has been hounded out of his job and the Unison union, was underlined last week as it emerged Unison has breached its own rules and statute law in payments to the Labour Party.
Workers at Premier Foods cannery in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, struck for one day last week and are set to strike for 48 hours this week.
The massacre of thousands of jobs this week shows the central importance of the Right to Work conference on 30 January in Manchester.
Bosses announced that about 900 jobs will go at the Bosch car parts plant in Miskin, near Cardiff. The other major employer in the area is steelmaker Corus, which is cutting more than 1,000 jobs at Port Talbot.
British National Party (BNP) member Terence Gavan was jailed last week for 11 years after police found 54 improvised explosive devices, including nail bombs and 12 firearms, at his home in West Yorkshire.
The BNP has launched its election campaign under the banner "Support Our Troops – Bring Our Boys Home".
The BNP is facing serious opposition to its plan to stand 300 candidates in the coming general election.
Activists in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire are organising to block a two pronged assault from the forces of fascism.
The BBC has admitted it was wrong in its handling of an interview with two Nazis on the Radio 1 show Newsbeat.
Two young women who took part in protests in solidarity with Gaza in January last year have been sentenced to 15 months in prison for "vandalising a branch of Starbucks".
Wednesday 27 JanuaryAfghanistan – why we should get out, Stop the War/CND public meeting, 7pm, Camden Centre, Bidborough Street, London WC1H 9DB.Thursday 28 JanuaryBlockade Gordon Brown’s Afghanistan war conference. Called by Stop the War and CND. Assemble 8.30am, Lancaster House, Stable Yard, St James’s, London SW1A 1BB. Friday 29 January Tony Blair’s Judgement Day at the Iraq inquiry from 8am. Stop the War protest, QE2 Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster SW1P 3EE.Saturday 30 JanuaryRight to Work conference of resistance and
Troops killed eight demonstrators in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on 12 January.
