The UCU lecturers’ union at Nottingham Trent university has won a new union recognition agreement after three months of struggle.
Birkbeck College, an evening university for part-time students in London, saw its first protest for many years on Wednesday of last week.
Labour and Tory politicians have been falling over each other to prove that they are the toughest on those who claim welfare benefits.
The conviction of Karen Matthews for kidnapping her daughter, Shannon, has led politicians and the media to denounce the supposed "underclass" of benefit claimants that exists in Britain.
Alongside the attacks on welfare, a number of other bills announced in last week’s Queen’s speech effectively dispel any notion that Labour is making a turn to the left.
If you have visited the National Galleries in London or Edinburgh recently you will probably have noticed the huge "Campaign for the Titians".
Anti-fascists in Hastings delivered a blow to the British National Party (BNP) on Monday of this week, when their pressure forced the cancellation of an event the fascists had organised.
Health worker Yunus Bakhsh began his appeal last week against the decision by his employers to sack him.
There is anger among members of the PCS civil service workers’ union after their leaders voted to accept a national agreement in a long-running dispute over pay.
Three strikes that were planned for this week by Unite union members at the Dover Harbour Board (DHB) have been called off pending talks.
Not a single bus left the First Bus depot in Aberdeen last Saturday as drivers, mechanics and cleaners who are members of the Unite union struck in support of a 5 percent pay claim.
On 22 July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder with hollow tip bullets by police who had followed him on to a tube train at Stockwell, south London.
