Teachers were outraged this week after the General Teaching Council (GTC) agreed to remove its chair from a panel set to hear a case against fascist British National Party (BNP) member Adam Walker.
The collapse of the system's neoliberal economic certainties over the last few weeks has meant that millions of people are questioning capitalism and want answers.
Supporters of the People Before Profit Charter are continuing to organise protests and events to highlight the charter's ten demands to improve the lives of working people in the face of the crisis.
It is being hailed as an honourable end to a disreputable war, the Status of Forces Agreement signed by the Iraqi cabinet last weekend sets out a timetable for the withdrawal of US combat troops from cities by June 2009, and the whole country by December 2011.
The Strasbourg protest will begin with a counter-summit bringing together anti-war activists, writers and politicians from around the world. It will start on Thursday 2 April.
The government’s latest bizarre solution to the housing crisis is to consider taking away yet more rights from council tenants.
Up to four in ten households are on waiting lists for council housing in some parts of England.
Schools Against Racism And Fascism launch success Around 300 people came to the launch of Schools Against Racism And Fascism, a joint initiative between Love Music Hate Racism and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), on Friday of last week.
Members of the GMB and Unison unions in the London Fire Authority have called a lobby of a meeting of their employer that will consider cuts in the organisation’s budget next week.
Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members from all parts of the country will hold a rally and lobby of MPs at the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday of this week.
Around 80 people attended the national conference of the Left Alternative in central London last Saturday.
Members of the Amicus section of the Unite union are preparing for a crucial election for general secretary.
