Rupert Murdoch is trying to influence the votes of hundreds of thousands of workers in the election for general secretary of the Amicus section of the Unite union.
Kerry Cafferty, the author of a complaint against leading health trade unionist Yunus Bakhsh, has resigned from the Unison union after she was exposed as a member of several Facebook groups that are a focus for racists. She was also a "Facebook friend" of open members of the British National Party.
More than 60 people attended a public meeting on the crisis at the Herald group of newspapers in Glasgow on Thursday of last week.
Plans for a three-day strike, a public meeting and a march by workers at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals firm in north west London have been put on ice.
Government plans to part-privatise Royal Mail threaten a jobs massacre and the smashing of one of the best-unionised industries in Britain. But, according to some leading CWU union activists, the leadership of their union has so far failed to deliver a strategy to resist this.
Some 300 bus workers employed by Sovereign in north west London are set to strike on Monday of next week and again on 11 February.
Thousands of Americans have travelled to Washington DC this week to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama as the new US president.
The fundamental test that Obama faces is not so much about the timescale or extent of his policy changes, but about the conflicting bases of his underlying support.
Israel has been using banned weapons such as white phosphorus and Dime bombs during its assault on Gaza, according to eyewitness evidence from Irish activist Caoimhe Butterly.
The Israeli army’s murderous assault on Gaza has been carried out with weapons made in Britain.
Israel claimed victory over Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organisations as it announced a unilateral ceasefire last Sunday after spending three weeks pounding Gaza.
Karen Reissmann, the nurse sacked after speaking out against the privatisation of mental health services in Manchester, this week presents her case for unfair dismissal to an Employment Tribunal.
