This weekend’s NUT teachers’ union conference is the last to take place during Tony Blair’s premiership – and looks set to get ready to fight many of his "legacies", from war to academies.
Greenwich council in south east London has announced plans to slash wages and annual leave under the guise of a single status deal.
Bisher al-Rawi, a British resident incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay after being detained in Gambia in 2002, finally came home on Monday of this week. Abu Bakr Deghayes, brother of British detainee Omar Deghayes, spoke to Socialist Worker about why the camp should be shut down for good
The capture of 15 Royal Navy personnel by Iran has been used to ratchet up the threats against the country. The US has sent two aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf, with a third battle group on its way this week. All three are nuclear armed.
A war crime of terrible proportions has been carried out in Africa – and hardly anyone noticed.
The US-backed government in Baghdad has approved the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from the Iraqi city of Kirkuk – which is home to Arabs, Kurds and other ethnic groups.
The first six weeks of George Bush’s "surge" on Baghdad has greatly increased the number of Iraqi civilian casualties in the Iraqi capital.
Baljeet Ghale this year became the first black president of the NUT teachers' union. In her opening address to conference this weekend she attacked the Labour government's record on education.
Solidarity: Scotland’s Socialist Movement is standing on the regional lists in the Scottish parliamentary elections. Pat Smith is top of Solidarity’s list in the Lothians region.
Respect is providing a home for many former Labour Party members who are disgusted with the government’s policies of war and privatisation.
While government ministers past and present lament immigrants’ "failure" to learn English and speak it at home, some half a million people have been told that their access to free English language courses is to be ended.
Council tenants in Swansea have delivered a resounding no to the council’s plans to transfer its entire housing stock to a private limited company.
