Teachers in the NUT union at Elthorne Park high school in Ealing, west London, were due to walk out on strike on Thursday of this week against proposed pay cuts after negotiations broke down last week.
A conference in Manchester on section 9 last Saturday was an important step forward in organising resistance to New Labour’s attempts to starve and intimidate asylum seekers into submitting to deportation.
Station staff on London Underground have voted by 1,225 to 212 in a ballot to accept a new deal on staffing at tube stations.
The US can draw little comfort from the recent elections in Iraq. The poll itself is mired in controversy, with both the winners and losers accusing each other of ballot rigging and political manipulation.
Bush and Blair’s illegal and immoral war on Iraq claimed another life on Tuesday of this week as, tragically, the 100th British soldier died.
At the final session of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Caracas, Venezuela, on behalf of the Stop the War Coalition, I made the call for a global day of protest on 18 March against the occupation of Iraq and any further new wars.
Proposals in the government’s new health White Paper will make it easier for private companies to profit from health services, and will make the funding crisis faced by many hospitals worse.
Over 200 residents and health workers from Hackney, east London, crammed into a Keep Our NHS Public campaign meeting last Wednesday.
Last week’s "welfare reform" proposals represent an attack on the most vulnerable people in society.
Council tenants, councillors and trade unionists from all over Britain are coming to London on Wednesday of next week for a mass rally and lobby of parliament.
Widespread opposition to New Labour’s education proposals is fuelling grassroots campaigning in defence of comprehensive education.
