Universities across Britain are facing devastating cuts – but students and staff are fighting back.
Many people feared that the Iraq inquiry, which opened last week, was going to be a whitewash.
Refuse workers in Leeds marched back into work on Wednesday of last week after forcing council bosses to retreat on a number of attacks on their pay and conditions—but workers now have to make sure that the council sticks to its promises.
‘I have no idea how we got into this war in the first place. It is so obvious that it is business that is making money and the profits are flowing. But things are terrible for ordinary people in Afghanistan.
Police raids in the north west of England on 16 November shocked many people. Five men were arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.
The Metropolitan police got a dressing down at the hands of Denis O’Connor, the chief inspector of constabulary, when his report on the policing of the G20 protests was released last week.
Some 30 health workers and campaigners protested on Thursday of last week against privatisation and cuts in east London NHS.
Trade unionists from Manchester and beyond last week rallied to defend Caroline Bedale, the longstanding Unison activist who is being victimised by her union’s leadership.
Alan Docherty, branch secretary of Darlington local government Unison, is the latest target of the union leadership’s attacks on left activists.
Ex Ford-Visteon workers protested outside Ford’s factory in Bridgend, South Wales, on Tuesday after the collapse of the company’s pension fund.
Over 100 people joined a Unite Against Fascism rally outside Southern Cemetery in Manchester last Sunday to protest against the desecration, for a third time, of Muslim gravesstones.
