Respect is campaigning hard in the Stonebridge ward council by-election in Brent, north west London.
Up to 100 people assembled on Tuesday morning outside an Aberdeen Remploy factory which is scheduled for closure.
Over 200 London bus workers demonstrated at sites across the capital on Thursday of last week demanding the right to toilets on their bus routes.
A strike next week by thousands of London Underground workers is part of a crucial battle over the future of our public services. The strike by employees of the failed Metronet consortium is set to start at 6pm on Monday of next week, .
Health bosses at a debt ridden NHS trust in Manchester are set to waste thousands of pounds a day – and disrupt the lives of vulnerable mental health patients – in an effort to break a strike in defence of trade union activist Karen Reissmann.
Refugees surge from Iraq The US military "surge" in Iraq has fuelled a further rise in the number of refugees and of civilians detained by occupation forces.
Over the last week the media has been dominated by the terrible murder of 11 year old Rhys Jones in Liverpool. Rhys was shot as he returned home from playing football with his mates – a truly senseless waste of a young life.
The estates of Croxteth and Norris Green in Liverpool, which surround the area where Rhys Jones was shot last week, are blighted by poverty, deprivation and dependence on drugs.
In the wake of the shooting, the media and politicians have raced to give their "solutions".
The media and politicians demand harsher laws to deal with "youth crime". But the only way to deal with the problem is to take a take a radically different direction:
55 percent of excluded pupils and 49 percent of young people have been the victim of a crime. Young men aged 16-24 are most at risk of violent crime. In 2005-6 12.6 percent of this group were victims of violent crime.90,000 boys in Britain leave school every year with not a single GCSE.9,400 children were permanently excluded from school in 2004-5. Black pupils are up to three times more likely to be excluded than white pupils.2,878 under 18 year olds in custody in February this year. The number of 15 to 17 year olds locked up has more than doubled in the last ten years. Around 85 percen
Workers at the failed Metronet tube maintenance company are to mount two 72-hour strikes as the bankrupt company’s administrator has not secured guarantees over jobs, conditions and pensions.
