Around 100 people came to an Organising for Fighting Unions meeting in Birmingham on Monday – despite roads around the venue being closed by police after a stabbing.
A quarter of Scottish children are growing up in poverty, according to a new report on poverty in Scotland.
Pensioners storm Lambeth town hall Startled councillors cowered in fear when a group of furious pensioners and disabled people stormed Lambeth town hall in south London on Wednesday of last week.
The conference of Solidarity: Scotland’s Socialist Movement last Saturday gave a kick start to its campaign for the May elections to the Scottish parliament. Some 200 delegates met in Glasgow to plan strategy and decide the shape of its manifesto.
The future pensions for millions of local government workers are hanging in the balance.
Three reports released last week revealed the gender and racial discrimination that prevents people getting jobs in Britain.
The most likely outcome of the Northern Ireland Assembly election this week is that the radical Republican party Sinn Fein will enter government with the Unionist bigot Ian Paisley.
A huge demonstration filled the streets of central London last Saturday calling for all occupying troops to be withdrawn from Iraq, no replacement of Britain’s nuclear weapons system, and no attack on Iran.
George Galloway, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green & Bow, spoke in the House of Commons on Monday night during a debate on public confidence in the integrity of the electoral system. Here is the full text of his speech, extracted from Hansard, the official report of parliamentary proceedings (© Parliamentary Copyright 2007).
A huge battle is brewing in Birmingham with serious implications for over a million workers across Britain.
Many people will have felt shocked and angry at the recent Unicef report which showed that Britain’s children are both poorer and less happy than children in 20 other Western countries.
The government’s housing strategy lurched further into crisis last week as tenants, local councillors, trade unionists and MPs came together in defence of council housing.
