What faces us if David Cameron is elected prime minister? The Conservative leader and his party faced two ways at their conference this week as they struggled to respond to the mounting financial turmoil.
One unexpected side effect of the economic crisis is the – hopefully brief – return of smug arrogance to Gordon Brown.
More than 150,000 local government workers struck across Scotland today.
Anti-racist activists and trade unionists joined local residents to demonstrate in Stoke-on-Trent last Saturday against a fascist rally in the city called by the British National Party (BNP).
Richard Barnbrook was one leading member of the BNP who did not join the Nazi rally in Stoke last Saturday.
Left meets in Manchester The Convention of the Left was held in Manchester last weekend.
Two separate strikes set for Monday and Tuesday of this week involving members of the RMT transport union at Southeastern Trains were called off for different reasons.
Notts TUC hosted a great meeting, with about 60 trade unionists present, on Tuesday of last week under the Public Services Not Private Profit banner.
Teachers in the NASUWT union at Sinfin Community School in Derby are to strike for three days over plans to turn the school into an academy.
Hundreds of pensioners and local people paraded around East Street Market in south London last Sunday to celebrate 100 years of the state pension in Britain.
The fight against New Labour’s attacks on public sector wages is entering a crucial stage.
The drive for a united pay revolt across the unions received a blow last weekend after a decision by further education lecturers in the UCU union at a special sector pay conference.
