An estimated 27,000 people marched through the Cornish town of Hayle (population 8,317) last Sunday, to protest against hospital closures.
Workers at Whipps Cross hospital in Leytonstone, east London, were set to begin a three-day strike on Wednesday of this week.
Unison union members at five sites of NHS Logistics, the not for profit agency that supplies hospitals, are balloting for strike action against privatisation.
Some 900 members of the Aslef drivers’ union on South West Trains struck on Tuesday over management arrogance.
Pilots in two more divisions of BMI - the third largest airline in Britain - have voted to strike over pay and other issues.
NUJ journalists’ union members at the Bolton Evening News will boycott later shift patterns from Monday of next week.
Tesco sacks a Polish union rep A T&G union shop steward has been sacked at a Tesco distribution warehouse in Middleton in north west England.
A secret British court ruled last week that an acquitted terrorism suspect can be deported to Algeria, despite continuing evidence of torture in that country.
The struggle against £3.5 million of cuts to the fire service on Merseyside looks set to intensify this week, with firefighters in the FBU union scheduled to go on strike for over a week.
The US government has reacted to its humiliation over Lebanon by ratcheting up the pressure on Iran.
Osama Saeed "The position of the pro-war elements on the foreign policy role in terror is strange. On one hand they tell us that there is a global evil ideology we must confront in a violent way, but on the other they say that the terror threat is the result of the failed policy of multiculturalism at home. The two positions cannot sit with each other."
"Are you with Spiderman?" enquires a representative of Hizbollah’s cultural wing.
