The indefinite strike by Glasgow community service supervisors is entering its fifth week.
Scotland faces its biggest housing crisis in 60 years. The economic collapse has destroyed the myth that competition and the "free market" can deliver on housing.
Gordon Brown announced last week that is he is backing down over rules that have stopped councils from building council housing.
Management at the Morning Star daily left wing newspaper effectively imposed a wage cut on its journalists last week.
Large angry meetings have been held across Glasgow in protest at the council’s plans to close 13 primary and 12 nursery schools to save £3.7 million.
Anti-fascists in the West Midlands are mobilising to protest against Adam Walker, an active member of the fascist British National Party (BNP) who worked as a teacher and is accused of using school equipment to post racist statements on the web.
Bosses at the high street giant Argos have delivered an outrageous ultimatum to workers – let us slash your terms and conditions, or we will slash your jobs and pay.
The Unite union was set to announce a strike ballot of over 2,000 bus drivers at Metroline in north and north west London as Socialist Worker went to press.
Tube unions have pledged to fight any plans for Transport for London and London Underground to impose compulsory redundancies.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) put Britain at the bottom of the class in its revised forecast for the world economy last week. At the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Gordon Brown was forced to refute suggestions that London was now "Reykjavik on The Thames" – a reference to Iceland’s economic crash.
Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House has had a bloody beginning. January has seen the highest number of coalition troop casualties in Afghanistan.
Israel and its Egyptian ally are continuing to hamper the entry of desperately needed humanitarian goods into the Gaza Strip after Israel’s assault on the Palestinians there.
