Anti-war campaigners in Cardiff staged a "die-in" last Saturday to protest against sending young men and women to fight in Iraq.
The Unison union’s local government service group executive was meeting this week to consider key issues in the fight over pensions.
Over 250 police marshalled for a raid by armed officers, an air exclusion zone banning aircraft from flying below 6,000 feet over the area, a man shot by police, a barrage of planted media lies, the terrorising of a whole community – all that took place in east London last week.
‘We are asking simple questions. Like how long does it take to search a small house? How was it that someone was shot during the raid? The longer the police spend in the house the more people’s doubts will grow about the intelligence upon which the raid was based.
Mikey Powell died on 7 September 2003 after being struck by a police car, hit with a baton and sprayed with CS gas in the Lozells area of Birmingham.
Mohammed Abdul Kahar, who was shot by police in the raid, is a postal worker in the distribution section at the Whitechapel office.
Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari was elected as the new secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain last weekend.
The police say that an MI5 informer claimed that Mohammed Abdul Kahar and his brother Abul Koyair were storing a bomb at their home in east London.
Firefighters in the FBU union in Hertfordshire staged their third eight hour strike on Wednesday of last week against plans by the county fire authority to slash the fire service by closing down two stations and axing 50 frontline jobs.
PCS and Prospect union members at the Ordnance Survey (OS) mapmakers are being balloted on industrial action as frustration mounts at the lack of a fair pay deal which is already ten months late.
Pensions campaign Workers in the RMT and TSSA rail unions were discussing the next stage of their pensions campaign this week after a ballot result, due as Socialist Worker went to press.
More than 100 locked out workers have won a great victory after protesting at a building site at the liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel terminal being built near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire.
