Driving rain did not stop a hugely successful meeting on "Who takes the rap for gun crime" hosted by South Manchester Respect in Moss Side on Thursday of last week.
Mental health workers in Manchester reacted with fury to the decision of their NHS trust to uphold the sacking of leading union activist Karen Reissmann.
A strike by civil service workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) brought job centres, benefit offices, the Child Support Agency and call centres to a halt on Thursday, the first day of a two-day strike.
Delegates representing millions of anti-war campaigners across the world this week pledged themselves to organising demonstrations, protests and rallies to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
Postal workers at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in defence of 12 colleagues who have been victimised by Royal Mail for standing up to bullying management.
A group of health workers from South Wales came as a delegation to the conference. Shop steward Ian Thomas, who helped to organise the group, told Socialist Worker, "Our union branch unanimously backed this event.
Campaigners from the Czech Republic told the conference about the growing unease over the "new cold war" in central Europe.
Delegates from Greece, Italy and Poland all reported that their governments were responding to the anti‑war movement with authoritarian measures.
Mohammad Omidvar represents Iran’s Tudeh (Communist) Party. He told the session on Iran about a growing movement for change inside the country.
Gordon Brown is facing a crisis over donations to government ministers and their various election campaigns – it is a crisis that goes to the very heart of the New Labour "project".
Over 1,500 council workers lobbied Birmingham city council’s meeting on Tuesday of this week.
Glasgow day centre workers entered their eighth week of strike action as united and determined as ever.
