Educational institutions run by unaccountable business interests and managerialists on spiralling wages. Is this a vision of the future of schools after New Labour’s neo-liberal "reforms" have been imposed?
Almost all politicians and most of the media have totally misrepresented the prospects of the fascist British National Party (BNP) at the council elections in Barking & Dagenham. And by exaggerating the BNP’s hold, they have helped the fascists to spread their poison.
Royal Mail’s bosses have added pay to the issues that are causing confrontation with postal workers.
The Post Office has announced that a further three Crown post offices will be taken over by franchises in the north west London area.
Aberdeen Council workers voted last week to suspend further strike action in their dispute over equal pay.
The strike by 25,000 further education lecturers that was due to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week has been called off so the Natfhe lecturers’ union can enter talks with management.
Military Families in Clydebank Protesters, Rose Gentle among them, leafleted Clydebank shopping centre this week against the British army launching a recruitment drive targeted at deprived areas. The protest, called by Military Families Against the War, was successful in closing the army recruitment stall and was well received by the vast majority of shoppers
Respect is standing five council candidates across Birmingham. Salma Iqbal is standing alongside Salma Yaqoob and Lynne Hubbard in the south of the city.
Newham is at the centre of a political battle that has come to shape the growing opposition to New Labour and its "arrogance of power."
Rail workers in four unions are preparing to ballot for a strike in defence of their pensions. Any strike would involve 80,000 workers and bring Britain’s rail network to a halt.
Workers at the BBC are mobilising against the corporation’s planned changes to its pensions scheme. This will mean thousands of staff working longer, paying more and receiving reduced benefits.
Agitation continues against the union leaders’ decision to call off the strikes in defence of the local government pension scheme.
