Over 250 teachers, parents, educationalists and campaigners met in London last Saturday for a one day conference against New Labour’s plans to rip up the comprehensive school system by extending city academies and trust schools across the state sector.
Left gears up for UCU general secretary contest Around 100 lecturers were in Manchester last Saturday for a meeting of the University and College Union (UCU) Left group.
Socialist Worker supporters at Imperial College in London took a leading role in a recent campaign to join the National Union of Students (NUS).
Council workers in Surrey were set to strike for one day on Thursday of this week over pay.
New allegations have been raised over employers operating a blacklist in the construction industry.
Exeter mail centre workers are to strike for 24 hours from 2pm on Monday over attacks on union rights and the failure to implement the back to work agreement after a recent unofficial strike.
Solidarity with Palestine A successful Palestine solidarity festival organised by the Camden Palestine Campaign was held last Sunday in Somers Town, London.
Yunus Bakhsh, a leading health activist in the Unison union, has been suspended from work for eight weeks.
Elections for the Scottish Parliament take place next May. Recent opinion polls suggest that 51 percent of Scots support independence and that 36 percent of them would vote for the Scottish National Party (SNP) against 29 percent for Labour.
Some of the lowest paid people in Britain are in revolt. The invasion of Goldman Sachs offices on Tuesday (see page one) was just one of a series of loud and angry protests outside the offices of some of the largest financial institutions in the City of London.
Over 280,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union are gearing up for a major battle in the new year over job cuts, pay restraint and privatisation.
Low paid cleaners and their supporters occupied the plush central London offices of the huge global investment bank Goldman Sachs this Tuesday.
