Support is growing for next weekend’s anti-war demonstration outside the Labour Party conference in Manchester.
Activists at the College of North East London (Conel) in Tottenham won a major victory last week when they kicked the military off their campus.
Investigations are underway into two recent incidents of black men in south London dying after either being chased or arrested by police.
The heavy rains that have hit Britain over recent weeks have led to an utterly predictable disaster – flooding.
"I’ll swap you one pensioner retiring to the Costa del Sol for one midwife from Nigeria."
"We are fighting for pay – but we are also fighting for respect. We want our lives and our dignity back." These were the words of one of 2,500 striking London bus workers employed by First who took action over pay recently.
Chancellor Alistair Darling claims that the purpose of his government is to create "fairness". His definition seems a long way from that understood by most people.
Some 4,000 young people descended on the cavernous Magna Centre in Rotherham last Saturday to hear The Kaiser Chiefs, Reverend and the Makers, The Courteeners and other bands back Love Music Hate Racism’s message of opposition to the Nazi BNP.
Over 1,000 workers at the Pirelli tyre factory in Carlisle have been asked to take unpaid leave.
Over 1,100 workers at CE Electric, in the Unite and GMB unions, have voted to strike for a 5 percent wage increase.
NUJ members working at Johnston Press newspaper the Sheffield Star and its sister titles have voted to take industrial action over cutbacks.
