Some 200 trade union lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists met last week for the ninth annual TUC LGBT conference.
Gill Whittaker campaign Over 60 people lobbied the disciplinary hearing for Chesterfield PCS activist Gill Whittaker on Friday of last week. Those attending included delegations from the GMB, CWU, Amicus, UCU unions, Chesterfield trades council and the Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centre. Speakers at the rally included Paul Holmes MP.
Factory workers in the GMB union went on strike last weekend for 24 hours after they were offered free pet food as part of an "improved" pay deal.
Brent Council in west London has withdrawn its expression of interest for an academy to be built on the Wembley Park sports ground site after a high-profile campaign. The campaign united education unions, parents, the local community and sports ground users.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in Merseyside has threatened to ballot for strikes against plans by the local authority to make £3 million cuts, axe 120 jobs and reduce night cover in Liverpool.
"There are F-16 planes and helicopters hovering over me as I speak. There are large numbers of tanks throughout Rafah and Gaza. Fear comes with the night. The sonic booms of Israeli warplanes are terrifying the population in Gaza."
The government's welfare reform plans unveiled this week are an attack on all of us.
Chancellor Gordon Brown said last week that he wants to further extend the period that terrorism suspects can be held without charge.
The deaths of two more British soldiers in Afghanistan last week shows that war continues to rage across much of the country.
Marion Birch is director of Medact, an organisation of medical practitioners that campaigns over the healthcare implications of war, poverty and environmental change. She spoke to Socialist Worker about plans, recently backed by Gordon Brown, to renew Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system.
Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker threatened with deportation to the US on trumped up terrorism charges, will begin his appeal against extradition next Tuesday.
We often describe people, ourselves included, in terms of what they do, know and think - nurse, right wing, roofer, gardening.
