A picture of bed cuts, job losses and attacks on services is emerging around the country as the NHS faces a deficit of about £1.6 billion. Recent announcements include:
Willie Walsh took over as chief executive of British Airways (BA) last week and immediately announced plans that are a declaration of war against the workforce.
The government is preparing to push through more vicious policies towards refugees when parliament returns on Monday of next week.
Climate change is leading to devastating hurricanes, melting the polar ice caps and threatening the planet.
Maria de Menezes, the mother of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead by police at Stockwell tube, south London, in July, has accused Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair of a cover up.
Victory for free speech Keith Shilson, student union president at Middlesex University, London, has won his fight for free speech and student democracy.
"A vote for the Iraqi constitution doesn’t mean we’re headed for peace and prosperity. Iraq is going to be a pretty difficult security environment for a while."General John Abizaid, the head of the US Central Command on the forthcoming referendum on the Iraqi constitution
Tony Blair hoped that, following the London bombings, he could regain the political initiative and defeat those who have campaigned against his wars for the past four years.
The first national demonstration against Section 9, the new power under the 2004 Asylum and Immigration Act to make families of ‘failed’ asylum seekers destitute, threaten eviction and even to take the children into care — is being held in Bolton on 1 October, this Saturday.
Philip Hewitt, a British soldier, was killed in Iraq ten weeks ago. His mother Susan Smith handed a letter in to Downing Street last Saturday calling on prime minister Tony Blair to bring the troops home.
Workers at Europe’s biggest supermarket meat supplier struck on Friday of last week to defend their pensions.
