Students at the University of Westminster in London demonstrated on Wednesday of last week against the university management’s plans to change the academic timetable.
The King’s and Festival theatres in Edinburgh face a summer of strikes as Bectu union members have begun a ballot for strike action over compulsory redundancies. Staff also allege that management are deliberately ignoring health and safety laws.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) conference took place in Southport this week following the election of left wing candidate Matt Wrack as general secretary.
Tony Blair took some big hits at the election, but that has not halted his mission to be "unremittingly New Labour" in the third term.
Tony Blair has brought back the disgraced former home secretary David Blunkett as secretary for work and pensions.
There are two big issues with nuclear weapons coming up during Blair’s third term. Firstly Blair has said that a decision will need to be made during this parliament on whether to replace Trident — Britain’s nuclear weapons system.
Prepare for taxing times Get ready for a thumping council tax bill, unless we can force the government to back off. The value of every home in England is being reassessed to calculate new council tax rates.
"Apart from George Galloway’s success, candidates standing for the anti-war Respect party won an average of 6.9 percent of the vote, easily the best performance by a far left party in British electoral history."John Curtice, Professor of politics at Strathclyde university
There’s a big corporate faction that desperately wants to push nuclear power forwards. They want to do this because it provides two things to them.
Join the protest for Babar Ahmad Supporters of Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker facing extradition to the US on bogus terrorism charges, have called a demonstration to coincide with the judge’s final verdict in his trial on Tuesday of next week.
In the gallery of public figures there’s a special place for the person who dares defy the way things are. I can remember sitting in a cafe sometime in the late 1960s. Round the table were, among others, Tariq Ali and the Marxist commentator and historian Perry Anderson.
