Around 150 people attended a protest in Sheffield last Saturday in support of Mohammad Arrian.
The 30-strong vehicle fleet of Harwich Express Freight Services was immobilised on Monday by a gate meeting called by the drivers’ committee in defence of a driver temporarily unfit to drive.
What Respect achieved in Tower Hamlets in 2005 was remarkable. For an organisation formed only two years earlier to return an MP is unprecedented.
March in Whitehall A protest march on Whitehall against government education plans has been called by Ealing and Islington NUT teachers’ union branches, with the support of the Socialist Teachers Alliance, Islington Campaign Against Academies and many other activists.
If a writer was jailed for 30 years for exposing government corruption in Iran or Syria, there would be outrage in the US and Britain and demands for military strikes. But when that happens in Iraq there is silence.
Every passenger and worker in London has an interest in seeing Underground workers win our ongoing battle against attacks on safety and jobs.
Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have voted for strikes over job cuts, office closures and other issues.
One company that rejoices in its image as a rapacious capitalist firm and another that imagines it embodies the spirit of the labour movement both assaulted their workers’ pensions last week.
"It is urgent that we start a strike ballot over the attacks on the local government pension scheme," says John McDermott.
A campaign by social workers to resist anti-asylum measures will step up a gear on 28 January. A conference in Manchester will aim to prevent the homelessness and separation of families under section nine of the Asylum and Immigration Act.
Hundreds of health workers, members of the Amicus union joined by some of their colleagues in the Unison union, lobbied MPs on Tuesday of this week.
The government is facing mounting opposition to its proposed neo-liberal assault on comprehensive state education.
