About 500 people crowded in to an electric fringe meeting organised by Respect and the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) at the Unison union conference in Glasgow last week.
A mass meeting of cleaning, catering and laundry workers at Fazakerley hospital, Merseyside, voted to suspend their strike action last week.
Last week parents, teachers and support staff in Islington, north London, won a stunning victory. They forced ARK, a charity run by a group of bankers and hedge fund speculators, to pull out of a scheme to create an independent but state-funded academy on the sites of Islington Green and Moreland schools.
Protesters from the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) occupied branches of the Royal Bank of Scotland on Monday of this week.
The simmering confrontation between public sector workers and the New Labour government over pensions looks set to intensify in coming months.
Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim Parliament, writes in opposition to the bill
Over 100 staff at three special schools in Leeds struck over the threat of 17 full time redundancies in one of the new Specialist Inclusive Learning Centres last week.
Members of the GMB union at Asda’s Washington depot in the north east of England have rejected an improved pay offer from management.
Anger at a massacre by the Turkish government led 500 people to march through Stoke Newington, north London, last Saturday.
Furious members of the NUT teaching union at North Westminster School, west London, voted for strike action last week and won an immediate withdrawal of proposals to relocate them.
The Make Poverty History (MPH) message resonated throughout the Glastonbury festival weekend. When people arrived they were given a special Glastonbury MPH white wristband.
Supporters of Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker threatened with extradition to the US on terrorism charges, have stepped up their campaign against the Extradition Act 2003.
