The agreement by Premier League chairmen to pursue a proposal to extend the football league season to 39 games from 38 has provoked outrage. The extra games would be played at venues around the world, with cities bidding for the right to stage them.
New Labour has again turned to the courts to defend its public sector pay curbs.
The battle for equal and fair pay in local government is coming to a head in Birmingham council.
Leeds Angry refuse and street cleansing workers in Leeds are to demonstrate on Wednesday of next week against Leeds council’s proposal to take up to £6,000 each year from their pay packets.
There are just three weeks to go until the international day of action against the "war on terror".
The government was forced this week to release an initial draft of the infamous "dodgy dossier" that was used to justify the 2003 attack on Iraq.
George Bush visited five African countries last week to promote the alleged benefits of US aid. But at the same time the charity Save the Children has issued a report that exposes the truth behind his boasts.
4.4% – The portion of Iraq’s national budget that is being spent on reconstruction12,000 – The number of Iraq’s 34,000 doctors that have now fled into exile54% – The proportion of Iraq’s population living on less than 50p a day. Some 15 percent of the country lives in "extreme poverty"75% – The proportion of Iraqi children that have no school place4 million – The number of Iraqi refugees – the largest refugee crisis in the Middle East since the fall of Palestine in 194840% – The unemployment rate in Iraq. Inflation is runnin
Barclays bank tried to claim that it was being hit by the global economic credit crunch when it announced this week that its annual profits had fallen.
Workers at the Ghazl el-Mahalla textile mill in Egypt staged a mass demonstration last Sunday, calling for the end of the US-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak.
Respect did well in two local elections on Thursday of this week.
A successful Campaign Against Climate Change trade union conference in London last Saturday attracted 300 people.
