Balfour Beatty is planning to demolish a historic school building brick by brick - and then sell the bricks for £1.50 each!
Over 100 people gathered at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester on Thursday of last week for the launch of John McDonnell’s campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party.
Workers facing the biggest ever privatisation of the health service have voted by three to one in favour of strike action.
Tony Blair told an audience at a London school last week that he’d like to choose his own time to go.
According to a recent article in the Guardian travel section, the best place for tourists to visit this autumn are those laid waste by imperialism, such as Lebanon.
Firefighters on Merseyside have walked out on strike for another eight days in what is shaping up to be a crucial struggle against neo-liberal cuts in the fire service and management attacks on the Fire Brigades Union (FBU).
The striking Merseyside firefighters are the latest group of workers to support the Organising for Fighting Unions conference to be held in London on Saturday 11 November.
Workers at Chep UK in Pontefract, South Yorkshire, are to strike for five days from Monday.
Delegates at TUC conference shook Tony Blair during his speech in Brighton on Tuesday. The anger at Blair for his policies of war and privatisation was clear.
Delegates voted to fight against the government’s attempts to raise the pension age.
Activists around Britain hit the streets last weekend to make sure there is the biggest possible turnout for the Time To Go demonstration in Manchester on 23 September.
Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the PCS civil service workers’ union, said in the debate on public services, "While the government wants to cut a 100,000 civil servants’ jobs it is spending £32.2 billion on consultants.
