The Anti Academies Alliance (AAA) has produced a statement in response to schools secretary Ed Balls’ alarming announcement that 638 secondary schools across Britain should "improve or close".
Two years ago 12 Respect councillors were elected in Tower Hamlets, east London, on the basis of opposition to war and privatisation, and support for council housing.
Refuse workers in Peterborough held a wildcat strike on Monday morning this week and were refusing to work until a dispute over their "single status" pay deal has been resolved.
Fife council was forced to abandon its full council meeting last week as disabled people from the Campaign Against Charges group chanted and displayed posters asking "Why?", "When?" and "How much?".
Pat Carmody, a CWU union rep at the Pell & Bales call centre, has been sacked by his employers for writing a short article in Socialist Worker.
Postal workers were shocked to hear this week that Simon Furze, a well known and highly effective CWU union rep at Royal Mail’s Leicester North delivery office, has been sacked.
The possibility of a post strike across the Bristol area took a step forward as the CWU union stepped up its campaign for the reinstatement of three workers who were sacked for alleged incidents relating to last year’s national dispute.
CWU union members in Oxford delivery offices are balloting over executive action – changes imposed without consultation with the union – by Royal Mail.
Adults become attached to children’s books in three overlapping ways – as memories of when they were children, as moments when reading books with children in their care and as pleasurable reads in themselves.
Street sweepers, school cooks, refuse workers, teaching assistants and the hundreds of thousands of other people doing vital jobs in local councils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are gearing up to take on Gordon Brown’s pay curbs with two days of strike action on 16 and 17 July.
Some 40,000 local government workers in the Unite union have voted by three to one to join the strike on July 16 and 17.
Up to a 100,000 job centre workers, coastguards, driving examiners and other government workers are set to strike alongside council workers.
