Four years ago council tenants on the Aylesbury estate, south London, voted to oppose the transfer of their 2,700 council homes to the private sector.
Residents and council workers in Southwark met on Thursday of last week to launch a campaign against another attack launched by the Liberal Democrat led council. The council plans to transfer home care services for elderly residents to a new private company.
On the day the Labour Party conference began in Brighton, around 300 protesters joined the biggest demonstration yet for the release of Brighton resident Omar Deghayes who has been incarcerated for three years in Guantanamo Bay.
Health activists, trade unionists, academics, MPs and celebrities have come together to launch a new campaign to oppose further attacks on the NHS.
People from across Britain joined the march for peace and liberty in central London today. The demonstration of around 100,000 was organised by the Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB).
New Labour’s draconian policies towards asylum seekers claimed another victim last week.
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) meeting last week passed a motion to oppose the attempts of the US administration and Venezuelan bosses to overthrow Hugo Chavez.
The last Tory government used to fantasise about privatising the whole of the National Health Service. Tony Blair is fulfilling the Tories’ maddest dreams.
Councillors in Mid Devon who are sceptical about a proposed stock transfer recently scored a victory by getting a motion carried at full council agreeing that an anti-transfer leaflet would be distributed to all tenants.
First Eastern buses First Eastern bus drivers in Norfolk and Suffolk started a week-long strike on Thursday of last week over pay and pensions.
Distribution workers at Morrisons depots were set to strike this week, sending shivers down the spines of bosses at the supermarket chain.
About 1,000 workers at Grampian Foods have voted by three to two to strike over pensions.
