Gordon Brown’s government is determined to hold down public sector pay to to 2 percent over the next three years.
All Gordon Brown’s rhetoric about building more homes and his supposed commitment to equality were shown to be hollow by the spending review.
The announced annual spending growth of 4 percent above inflation for the next three years is still barely half the 7.4 percent that the NHS has received for the last five years.
Over 250,000 civil service workers in the PCS union are balloting over whether to take further industrial action.
Education spending in England will rise on average by 2.8 percent a year in real terms between 2007-08 and 2010-11.
They kill with impunity. Gun down civilians, devastate families and spread terror. Yet they are beyond the law.
"According to some of America’s leading journalists, the attack on Iraq would never have happened had the media challenged the lies of Bush and Blair instead of amplifying and echoing them.
Demonstrators will gather in Lisbon this Thursday to protest outside the European Union (EU) summit being held in the Portuguese capital.
On Tuesday of last week – the day after hundreds of student activists descended on parliament – the National Union of Students (NUS) leadership revealed its 80 page long attack on its democratic structures to the national executive.
Over 120 people took to the streets of north London last Sunday against the gun and knife crime that has blighted so many young lives over the last few months.
Students at Oxford university and anti-fascist campaigners have reacted with outrage to the news that the Oxford Union debating club has invited two leading Nazis to speak to its members next month.
Across the country a series of unofficial walkouts have hit Royal Mail. Post workers in Liverpool, Glasgow, East London and Streatham have all taken unofficial action on Wednesday morning as the latest official strikes came to an end.
