Fury at Southall centre closure A lively campaign is developing in west London, against the closure of Southall Community Centre, which has been at the centre of the community for over 60 years.
Over 700 people crammed into a meeting last week in Birmingham to discuss defending people’s right to stay in Britain.
Some 4,000 aircraft workers in the Amicus union held an unofficial strike on Friday of last week.
Birmingham Around 300 council workers lobbied Birmingham council's cabinet meeting on Monday lunchtime. The meeting was due to decide to implement the single status proposals.
Over 2,000 Southampton council workers struck for 24 hours on Tuesday of last week. The strike was called in protest at the council’s proposal to transfer over 700 jobs to private company Capita.
Some 330 Unison union members working in Hampshire libraries staged a two-day strike last week.
"Social workers have to work with the big picture," said one participant at the "Social Work: A Profession Worth Fighting For?" conference in Glasgow last weekend.
Anger at the victimisation of leading Unison union activist Yunus Bakhsh continued to grow last week.
Anti-fascists around the country have started campaigning against the threat posed by the British National Party (BNP) at the elections on 3 May.
Edinburgh Up to 500 postal workers walked out on unofficial strike at Edinburgh’s mail centre last weekend in a dispute over new working practices and management bullying.
"It shows that if you shout loud enough and long enough, the chancellor will hear." This was a response to Gordon Brown’s budget – not from the trade unionists who fund the Labour Party – but from Miles Templeman, director general of the Institute of Directors.
