The Labour government forced through a significant attempt to cover up miscarriages of justice this week. The measure, buried in the Coroners and Justice Bill, passed by a majority of just eight MPs.
Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at the University of Westminster are set to strike on Friday of this week in a dispute over back pay.
Lecturers at Glyndwr University in Wrexham have voted to strike in support of a sacked lecturer.
Two hundred members of the lecturers UCU union at Barnsley College struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
Around 250 people attended a conference on "The crisis in working class representation" sponsored by the RMT transport union last Saturday in London.
Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, has admitted that next month’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen will not produce any binding treaty to tackle climate change.
Teachers in the NUT union at Norlington School in Waltham Forest, east London, began a three-day strike on Tuesday of this week.
Teachers, parents and children across Britain are stepping up activities against the government’s hated Sats tests.
Refuse workers in Brighton suspended their strike action for 21 days as Socialist Worker went to press. The move came after the council appeared to make significant concessions retreating from its plan to cut the wages of the 300 workers.
Supporters and readers of Socialist Worker as well as socialists from around the world will be sad to hear the tragic news that Chris Harman died last night in Cairo where he was speaking.
More than 2,000 drivers at East London Bus Group (ELBG) are to join the growing wave of unrest on the buses by striking on Monday over pay and conditions.
The FBU firefighters’ union has called off all strike action in South Yorkshire and gone into talks.
