Workers at a South Shields double-glazing company went on strike last Friday over pay.
Stoke resident Habib Khan was handed an eight year jail sentence last week for the manslaughter of British National Party (BNP) activist Keith Brown, his next door neighbour and a hardened Nazi thug.
The TUC conference next week will see major discussions about how workers can best respond to the looming economic crisis.
A strike of some 2,500 London bus workers on Friday of last week saw mass picketing on the streets as strikers brought many bus routes in the east and west of the city to a standstill.
Thousands of bus workers in London have thrown their weight behind the Unite union’s growing pay campaign.
I’m writing this before the final announcement of the government’s plans to "revive the housing market" – but I’m already confident in predicting they won’t work.
New Labour has finally admitted what millions have known for months – that the country is sailing towards recession and government ministers have no solution to the crisis.
Veteran journalist John Pilger will be holding a question and answer session at an event to help raise funds for this year’s Socialist Worker Appeal.
At a time when the public sector is under relentless attack from New Labour’s neoliberal policies, the Social Work: A Profession Worth Fighting For? conference will be a crucial event to rally resistance.
Campaigners against the privatisation of the NHS in north west England were celebrating last week as Preston council backed a motion that opposed plans to build a polyclinic in the city.
The campaign continues to defend sacked nurse Karen Reissmann and the right to speak out in defence of the NHS – despite the postponement of her employment tribunal.
The new Labour government is leading the West’s war of words against Russia in its dispute with Georgia.
