Actress Julie Christie and musician Brian Eno last week handed in a letter, signed by almost 100 celebrities, academics, musicians, MPs and activists to 10 Downing Street calling for British troops to be brought home from Iraq by the end of the year.
Around 160 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union struck aginst job cuts in Nottingham on Monday. The workers at the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) headquarters are angry about plans to cut 50 posts.
Suffolk fire authority has conceded talks with the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) after a further round of solid strike action against cuts last week.
The North West regional committee of the Unison union has launched an urgent financial appeal for members in the Sefton branch on Merseyside.
Over 300 people gathered outside the immigration department of the home office in Glasgow last Saturday to protest at the arrest and deportation of families in the city.
The ferocity of the recent loyalist riots in Belfast astounded commentators, but came as no surprise to anyone who lives or works in Protestant working class areas.
The chasm between the hopes of millions of workers for a decent retirement and New Labour’s plans to make us all work longer was laid bare at the TUC conference last week.
The Gate Gourmet dispute rightly dominated the TUC conference and led to a unanimous call to end the legal ban on solidarity action.
The home secretary Charles Clarke wants to bring in new laws that would make it illegal to justify or glorify terrorism.
The family of Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker who faces extradition to the US on trumped up terrorism charges, learned recently that home secretary Charles Clarke has applied for another two month extension to make his decision.
This is a seminal moment in the US. You wouldn’t know it from the media coverage in Britain — including the now Hutton-compliant BBC.
