Workers from across Britain will be descending on Birmingham on Saturday 16 May to join the Unite union’s national march for jobs.
Four British Tamils began a new hunger strike on Friday as part of the ongoing demonstration against the Sri Lankan government's assault on Tamil areas. The continuous protest in Parliament Square, central London is still going strong after 26 days.
Glasgow City Council voted to close 22 schools and nurseries across the city on Thursday of last week.
Workers at Prisme Packaging in Dundee declared victory as they ended their 51-day occupation on Friday of last week.
NUJ union members in Glasgow took three days of strike action last weekend, crippling the production of the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail. They struck against proposals for 70 redundancies and are escalating their action with a further strike ballot on a change to shift patterns.
The fascist British National Party (BNP) revealed its true colours last week when its leader Nick Griffin went on record defending an official BNP activist manual that said that Asian and black British people "do not exist" and should be referred to as "racial foreigners".
The British National Party (BNP) suffered a setback in east London last week when they came fifth in a by-election in Wanstead, Redbridge. The BNP polled just 171 votes – 4.9 percent. Only the UK Independence Party candidate got less votes.
Over 70 delegates from across the north west of England attended the UAF regional conference in Manchester last Saturday.
Around 700 members of the RMT transport union at East Midlands Trains were set to strike on Friday of this week against 162 job losses and the company’s failure to guarantee that there will be no compulsory redundancies.
Bus workers at Metroline in north London have voted by over 90 percent for strikes in an indicative ballot over the introduction of a new substance misuse policy.
A series of strikes by 10,000 PCS civil service workers’ union members at call centres in Revenue & Customs was suspended after an agreement was reached that satisfied most of the union’s demands.
The Scottish TUC (STUC) committed itself to a programme of Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the state of Israel on Wednesday of last week. The STUC recommended BDS because of "Israel’s attacks on the human rights of Palestinian people, and its failure to comply with agreed international law".
