Some 340 caretakers and cleaning staff in 20 schools across Kirklees, West Yorkshire, may strike.
The Nazis of the British National Party (BNP) are taking advantage of the racist atmosphere against Muslims to attempt to widen their influence. But Unite Against Fascism and Love Music Hate Racism are doing everything they can to stop them.
The government’s policy of privatising council housing received another blow last week when tenants in Renfrewshire in Scotland voted against transfer of their homes.
At the gates of Eastwood Park prison, on Thursday of last week, two rather embarrassed policemen are gently trying to persuade retired school teacher Pauline Campbell to unblock the road and allow a prison van to enter.
In Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations the main character, Pip, tells the story of how, as a rural, working class boy, he is invited up to the local Great House of someone called Miss Havisham.
The warmongers who have created the chaos in Iraq are now proposing that the country be broken into three.
As Iraq sinks into chaos, the US military is planning to pull up the drawbridge behind a string of "superbases".
"There are only bad options for the coalition from now on," said Sir Jeremy Greenstock this week. He was the deputy ruler of Iraq for much of the occupation and has defended British policy down the line.
The Anglo-American adventure in Iraq is heading for a disaster for Washington as great as the defeat in Vietnam.
Health unions have angrily accused chancellor Gordon Brown of intervening in NHS pay talks to force through an effective salary cut.
Over 150 mental health staff in Manchester have voted unanimously to ballot for strike action if a package of cuts is not dropped.
Students will converge on London this Sunday for a national demonstration against Labour’s higher education policies.
