Activists are still occupying Dalston Theatre in east London against Hackney council’s threatened demolition.
Rank and file firefighters in the FBU union are campaigning to get the biggest possible no vote to a pensions deal put forward by government ministers and the union’s leadership.
Socialist Worker last week reported that newspapers were carrying a quote from "a PCS spokesperson" on the current pensions negotiations for the civil service. The PCS says the comments made by the spokesperson were badly misrepresented by the newspapers.
Some 200 people attended a meeting of the Bengali Press Club in east London on Monday of last week to express outrage at a violent attack on a local Bengali paper.
Firefighters from Hertfordshire protested outside Downing Street against cuts on Wednesday of last week. They demonstrated rather than take part in a reception put on to acknowledge the 600 firefighters who tackled the Buncefield oil depot fire in Hemel Hempstead last December.
This year’s Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) annual conference took place against the backdrop of New Labour’s recent defeat in the Dunfermline West by-election.
Anti-fascists and trade unionists in Merseyside have vowed to step up their campaign against the British National Party (BNP) after the Nazis came third in a council by-election.
The US is ratcheting up the pressure on Iran with the clearest signs yet that George Bush’s administration is planning a military attack on the country’s fledgling nuclear programme.
Higher education workers in the AUT and Natfhe unions struck over pay on Tuesday.
Anger among teachers, parents and trade unionists is growing over the education bill, set to be debated in parliament on Wednesday of next week.
Teachers strike against job cuts Members of the NUT teaching union at Mayville Primary School, east London, held a one-day strike on Thursday of last week.
Merseyside Respect is targeting the Liverpool 8 ward of Prince’s Park in the forthcoming May elections.
