Last Saturday Over 400 people attended the remarkable Media Workers Against The War (MWAW) "The First Casualty? War, Truth and the Media Today" event.
On the surface of it, giving all young people not only the right but the obligation to stay on in education or training until 18 could be seen as the liberal educationalist’s dream.
PCS ballot over jobs and pay The ballot of 80,000 PCS civil service workers’ union members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over strike action against the threatened imposition of a below inflation pay offer ends on Monday of next week.
The Human Tissue and Embryology Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords on Monday of this week. The bill has opened up the possibility of the law on abortion being amend.
Around 250 people gathered at the annual conference of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) in London last Saturday. They heard from speakers including Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and union leaders Mark Serwotka, Matt Wrack and Joe Marino.
Around 165 people participated in "The Great Aviation Debate" organised by Manchester Climate Forum on Thursday of last week.
A planned strike of around 2,000 bus workers at the East London Bus Group due to take place on Wednesday was suspended at the last minute after management made an improved pay offer. The offer will be put to the drivers to decide whether or not to accept it.
Over 500 taxi drivers in Dundee struck last weekend as part of their long-running dispute with Dundee council.
Refuse collectors in Eastleigh in Hampshire held two more one day strikes over working conditions on Friday of last week and Monday of this week.
Some 150 Unison union members and supporters demonstrated outside East Ham Town Hall in Newham, east London.
Members of the national executive of the University and College Lecturers Union (UCU) in further education met last week to discuss action over pay.
Islington’s Lib Dem council leader James Kempton is determined to close Islington Green school in north London and reopen it as an academy.
