The fascist British National Party (BNP) grabbed its first council seat south of the River Thames last week when it took a previously safe Labour ward in the town of Swanley, on the border of south east London and Kent.
Over 100 delegates at the UAF conference attended a session on Music Against Racism and Fascism organised alongside Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR).
"If our unions fight back when bosses announce redundancies, then we’ve got a chance to save jobs. But if we’re told to quietly walk away, then we’re all done for."
Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed has finally been released after seven years locked up without charge.
A high profile raid on activists joining a humanitarian convoy to Gaza has highlighted how the police are using "anti-terrorism" laws to harass campaigners.
For the last two years the government has attempted to divide the Muslim community in this country by launching a programme called Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE).
Talks to end the long-running pay dispute at the Metroline bus company in north west London are continuing.
Up to 100 trade unionists, activists and students lobbied a disciplinary hearing for union activist Jose Stalin Bermudez at Soas university in central London on Tuesday of this week.
The United Left, the broad left of the new Unite union, held its inaugural conference in Birmingham last Saturday. Around 200 members of the old Amicus and T&G broad left organisations attended.
In one of the biggest assaults on workers in higher education yet seen, management at London Metropolitan University have announced that up to one quarter of all workers will lose their jobs by the end of the next academic year.
Over 350 people gathered in Glasgow for the annual Scottish Stop The War Coalition conference.
The battle over jobs in construction and the direction of the fight is continuing.
