Tenants, trade unionists, councillors and campaigners are set to lobby MPs over the Housing and Regeneration Bill on Tuesday 22 January.
Gordon Brown has decided that the NHS’s 60th birthday should be celebrated with an expansion of the very policies that have undermined it.
Outrage at the sacking of psychiatric nurse Karen Reissmann for speaking out against cuts and privatisation of mental health services continues to be a cause of acute embarrassment for health bosses in Manchester.
Royal Mail is spending thousands of pounds a week in an effort to break a postal workers’ strike at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke. Now the CWU postal workers’ union is threatening to spread the strike across the Midlands region.
The work and pensions secretary Peter Hain started the week calling for ordinary people to "take responsibility" for pensions.
New Labour has responded to action against its public sector pay curbs by threatening to ban a key group of workers from striking.
Gordon Brown had a stark new year’s message for working people in Britain – it’s going to be a "difficult and dangerous" year, and the Labour government expect you to pay for it by working harder and earning less.
Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was murdered today in a brutal suicide bomb attack that also claimed the lives of at least 20 of her supporters.
The Scottish Steering Committee of the SWP condemns the recent arrest of Tommy Sheridan on charges of perjury. We also deplore the manner in which he was arrested at his place of work and the harassment and intimidation suffered by his wife and young daughter as nine police officers searched their home on a Sunday afternoon.
Four postal workers have been sacked in Bristol as a result of events during the recent national strike. Two have been sacked at the South East delivery office (SEDO) after alleged clashes on the picket line.
Workers in Argos in the Republic of Ireland were set for their third 24-hour strike today (Tuesday) in a dispute that has seen Argos management flying in scabs from England to try and break the strike.
Belgian multinational Bosals have just announced redundancies at their Preston plant.
