Workers from the threatened HP sauce factory in Birmingham are set to protest in the city against 125 proposed job cuts this Saturday.
Train drivers working for South West Trains based at London’s Waterloo station struck for 24 hours on Tuesday of this week.
A joint union campaign against privatisation will be launched at a rally and mass lobby of parliament on Tuesday 27 June.
Firefighters in Hertfordshire struck for eight hours on Friday of last week against plans by the county fire authority to "modernise" the service by closing two fire stations and axing up to 50 frontline firefighter posts.
Saqib Almas must stay Sam Almas, who was featured in last week’s Socialist Worker, is launching a campaign to stop the deportation of her brother Saqib.
The Iraqi town of Haditha will now forever be linked with the blood and terror of the US occupation. For many it will be Iraq’s equivalent of Vietnam’s My Lai, a symbol of the violence of imperialism.
Tanks were patrolling the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday of this week following a wave of demonstrations and riots that targeted symbols of the Western occupation of the country.
At least 1,000 British soldiers have deserted from the army since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003, the BBC reported this week.
New Labour's vision of an NHS opened to market forces moved a step closer last week as Care UK became the first private company to take over a GP’s surgery.
Following the success of the Tell It Like It Is book highlighting how the education system fails black children, a campaign of the same name is set to be launched on Saturday 17 June at 11am outside 10 Downing Street.
The government’s new pension plans mean that everyone currently aged 47 or younger will have to work longer before claiming a state pension.
‘The government’s failure to address the issues of pensioner poverty, unpopular means testing and the plight of five million existing women pensioners is the biggest whitewash of older people in the history of social policy.
