A 48-hour strike by Lothian bus workers last weekend was 100 percent solid. Large picket lines were formed at Edinburgh’s bus depots on both days despite some torrential rain on Saturday.
New Labour in Tower Hamlets, east London, is looking increasingly desperate on many fronts, not least in the struggles over council housing.
About 50 local residents from Bethnal Green, east London, attended a lively and angry meeting on Tuesday of last week to object to a proposed building development in one of the area’s few green spaces.
The elderly and people with disabilities in Bristol are to pay again for the way finances have been mishandled in previous years by senior social services managers.
Liberty recently helped in a case where a young man challenged the police’s right to remove a person suspected of being under 16 from a curfew area after 9pm.
Paddy Hill: ‘We must defend the Muslim community’ Paddy Hill, one of six Irish men who were framed by the state for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, spoke to Socialist Worker.
It is right that our movement should stay on the streets. We will be holding another national demonstration on 24 September.
Left wing candidates took two council seats in Birmingham last week. The People’s Justice Party (PJP) gained two councillors in the Bordesley Green ward with Labour taking the third seat. The Liberal Democrats gained all three seats in Aston ward.
British Foreign secretary Jack Straw has set himself the task of giving Arab rulers "the confidence to face down terrorism". He believes there is "a wind of change" blowing in the Middle East.
Troops in new abuse claims Some 23 US soldiers serving in Iraq have been charged with mistreating detainees while on operations in the Baghdad area.
On Friday 15 July police descended on the Iqra Learning Centre, an Islamic bookshop in Beeston, Leeds. They battered the door down and sealed the shop off, arresting one man who worked there under anti-terrorism laws.
