By 10am Friday morning 1,000 people had defied all obstacles to come to the delayed opening rally of Marxism 2005. After a minute's silence for all those killed in the London bombings and in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, they heard powerful and moving speeches from veteran socialist Tony Benn, Stop the War Coalition convenor Lindsey German, Respect MP George Galloway and Portuguese Left Bloc MP, Ana Drago.
Around 1,500 postal workers in Northampton are on strike in a battle for their CWU union’s future.
"For Pity's Sake, Let Them Stay!" So ran one newspaper headline last month, in response to the hunger strike by scores of Zimbabwean asylum seekers in British detention centres.
Among the groups of refugees on Saturday’s march was Daniel, a refugee from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Tony Blair's public position is that no decision has been made on replacing Trident submarines with a new generation of nuclear weapons.
Unison's national delegate conference, held in Glasgow last week, saw the union commit itself to a series of tough policies over privatisation, pensions and opposition to the Labour government’s domestic agenda.
On Friday of last week Unison made history by becoming the first union to pass policy over climate change. Conference voted to work with the Campaign Against Climate Change and support demonstrations urging that governments take action to curb carbon emissions.
About 50 people marched on Wednesday of last week to demand the removal of a mobile phone mast in East Kilbride, Scotland. The mast is near a nursery and school
Postal workers at Bow Locks, the east London mail centre, are enraged at management’s attitude after a recent emergency evacuation.
Sheffield Newspapers NUJ Journalists in the NUJ union working for Sheffield Newspapers are balloting for action over a staffing crisis.
The GMB union is battling to stop an attempt to form a right wing breakaway to it in the DHL parcels company.
Neath bus cuts Protest in Neath, Wales, on Wednesday of last week against the closure of a bus route that will see over 250 children having to find another way to get to school.
