Karen Reissmann, the nurse and leading union activist at the centre of a long-running strike for the right to speak out against cuts and privatisation, has been delivered a vicious blow – not by her former employers, but by those conducting elections in her own union, Unison.
Unison leaders are also attempting to ensure that another sitting member of the health service group executive is blocked from re-election.
Somalia US warplanes bombed a small town in Somalia earlier this week killing four people and wounding 20 – including four children.
Anger at Turkey’s invasion of northern Iraq led around 3,000 people to march across north east London last Sunday.
Israel unleashed terror on the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip last week, when it launched a military operation including airstrikes.
Over 2,000 Chinese workers, employers and their supporters attended the first Chinese organised mass rally in London to protest against recent immigration raids at Chinese catering firms all over Britain.
The Labour government introduced draconian new immigration controls last week. By the end of the year, you will need to be a graduate with good English on £40,000 a year to seek permanent work in Britain.
Women too terrified to give birth in hospitals, sick people refused treatment and some of the poorest people abandoned to die from HIV/Aids.
Labour, Respect and independent councillors walked out of Preston’s council meeting last week in protest at a decision to stop councillors from discussing motions on pension disinvestment in the arms trade and on the minimum wage.
Anti-academy schools campaigners are set to mount a challenge to over 30 sitting New Labour and Tory councillors in Barrow.
Lindsey German attends Bethnal Green tube disaster commemoration Respect’s candidate for London mayor Lindsey German attended a commemoration of the Bethnal Green tube disaster last Saturday.
Attacks on abortion rights are set to continue as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill heads back to the House of Commons.
