A conference that brought together leading anti-Zionist Jews and Muslims took place in London last Sunday. Against Zionism: Jewish Perspectives was organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission.
This Thursday will see the beginning of Europe’s biggest left wing conference in central London. Marxism 2006 will continue until Monday of next week.
After last week’s parliamentary debate on the pensions White Paper it’s time to take stock of where we are with the struggle over pensions, what the government has tried to do, and how effective our side’s response has been.
The family of Zahid Mubarek, who was beaten to death by his racist cellmate at Feltham young offender institution in 2000, accused the home office and prison service of "institutional murder" last week.
The prison population of England and Wales reached an all time high of 77,962 last week. It has gone up by 51 percent in ten years. Many campaigners are worried about what the increased jailing of people means.
Last week Labour launched its biggest attack yet on the NHS. The government placed an advert in the official journal of the European Union which invited businesses to apply to run primary care trusts.
Student nurses are the latest group to be hit by NHS job cuts as trusts attempt to claw back a £1.2 billion deficit.
Workers from NHS Logistics, the not for profit agency that supplies hospitals, organised a march in Maidstone, Kent, last Saturday as part of their campaign against plans to sell off the service.
Health activists in Waltham Forest, east London, won a victory last week when the local primary care trust temporarily withdrew planned budget cuts.
Workers showed how it is possible to win a victory for union rights over the world’s largest retailer last week. Depot workers, members of the GMB union, have forced a level of union recognition from the food giant Asda.
Up to 35 jobs are set to go at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) this September with the surprise closure of the School of Languages and the School of Business Information.
