Momentum is building for the national demonstration for jobs on Saturday 16 May in Birmingham, called by the Unite union.
I came across the hidden history of David Oluwale while working in Leeds. I’d been away from the north for some years and Leeds seemed a very different city to the one I’d known in my youth. Back then it was tribes of beer-drinking Tetley Bittermen, goths, and football hooligans from the Service Crew. Mostly unpleasant, dark stuff.
It is a terrible indictment of the British police that the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests two weeks ago was entirely predictable.
Over 500 people marched last Saturday from Bethnal Green police station to the spot in the City of London where Ian Tomlinson died.
Some 20 police vans descended on a school in Nottingham in the early hours of Monday morning to arrest 114 people.
The RMT transport union is calling for Super Puma helicopters to be suspended from use following an initial report into the crash that killed 16 people off the coast of northeast Scotland this month.
Workers at the Prisme packaging plant in Dundee entered their seventh week of occupation on Wednesday.
Some 300 prisoners at HMP Ashwell open prison in Rutland, Lancashire, set fire to prison buildings over the Easter weekend in a protest over their loss of privileges – a move often used by authorities to punish prisoners.
Company bosses escalated their attacks on workers’ pensions last week as Aon, the world’s biggest insurance broker, announced it would slash its contributions to its final salary scheme in half.
Attempts to set up a website to smear Tory politicians led to one New Labour spin doctor resigning last week and a fresh crisis for Gordon Brown.
Occupations by parents at two Glasgow schools threatened with closure have entered their second week—and put local councillors on the defensive.
"No justice, No peace" was the rallying cry of campaigners last Saturday as they marched for justice for Ian Tomlinson.
