Some 300 trade unionists attended the East London Teachers Association initiated, "Fight the government's pay freeze" rally last week. The event, brought together public sector trade unionists.
In an outrageous move, an 80 year old peace activist, George Mather, was arrested while lobbying Labour’s deputy leadership hustings in Newcastle.
Local government workers in the Unison union took a major step towards a strike over the public sector pay cuts this week when their service group conference voted overwhelmingly for coordinated action over pay.
Well over 300 people crowded into the Camden Irish Centre in north London last week to hear journalist Rageh Omaar discuss his recent documentary, Inside Iran.
There is one thing Gordon Brown can do to draw a clear line between his premiership and that of Tony Blair – withdraw the British troops from Iraq.
Delegates to the conference of the Amicus section of the new Unite union gave incoming prime minister Gordon Brown a distinctly unenthusiastic welcome on Monday.
The European Court of Human Rights has requested that a hold be placed on the imminent extradition of British citizen Babar Ahmad to allow them to give the case "proper consideration".
Leeds strike over redundancies Teachers and support staff at Fountain Primary school in Morley, Leeds, held a one-day strike on Wednesday of last week.
The House of Lords ruled last week that European human rights law did apply to British troops serving in Iraq in the case of Baha Musa who died in their custody four years ago.
Libya is still in the process of paying compensation to the relatives of those who lost loved ones in the Lockerbie air disaster of 1988.
2.2million Iraqis have fled their country, and approximately 1.9 million have been displaced internally.50,000 Iraqis are forced to flee their homes each month.100 civilians were killed every day from February to May this year. The number of attacks on both US forces and Iraqis have risen to an average of over 1,000 a week.200,000 Iraqi children are refugees in Jordanian. But only...20,000 Iraqi children are able to attend Jordanian schools.43 percent of Iraqi refugee children in Jordan witnessed violence in Iraq, and 39 percent said th
My message to Gordon Brown is that we must get the troops home now. My son is a serving soldier just back from Iraq. I am not a pacifist, but I am against what is happening in Iraq – the illegality and the lies.
