The election for the national officers of National Union of Teachers (NUT) national officers opens on Wednesday of next week.
Some 500 people attended a rally in support of trade union rights at the houses of parliament on Thursday of last week. On Friday two private members’ bills—the Temporary and Agency Workers Bill and Trade Union Rights and Freedoms Bill were blocked by the government. They can still be debated at a later date
Day centre workers in Glasgow have entered their second week of all-out indefinite action over a job regrading process.
So the hideous but seemingly immortal serpent that is scientific racism has emerged once again. This time the perpetrator is James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of DNA.
The Socialist Worker Appeal to raise £150,000 has hit £82,002 in just seven weeks. This puts us over £5,000 ahead of what we had raised this time last year. Thanks to everyone who has donated or organised collections so far.
Gordon Brown has made it clear there will be no referendum on the European Union (EU) reform treaty.
Anti-fascist activists have stepped up their campaign to block plans by the Oxford Union debating club to host a pair of Nazis next month.
The terrible cost of cuts in Manchester’s mental health services is clearly illustrated by the death of William Scott, a 49 year old man from Manchester. William suffered multiple stab wounds that his family say were self inflicted. This tragedy was neither unforeseen nor inevitable.
Members of Unison union, who work for Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (Bitmo) in Leeds, took one day of strike action last Monday.
Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) has launched its biggest initiative to date – a 29-track double CD compilation featuring exclusive tracks from some of the country’s biggest acts, including Babyshambles, Lethal Bizzle, The Enemy and Roll Deep.
Billy Bragg kicked off a series of LMHR events in schools to promote the new CD with a visit to Barking Abbey, his old school, on Tuesday of last week. The school is in the east London borough of Barking & Dagenham where the BNP has 12 councillors.
Haidar Eid, a lecturer at Al Aqsa University, explained the deeping crisis of Palestinian society in a talk broadcast live from Gaza to a conference in London last Saturday.
