Initial City Link strike RMT union members working at Initial City Link were to strike over low pay on Wednesday of this week.
One hundred and fifty people, mainly construction workers, joined a march and rally in London to commemorate Workers Memorial Day on Thursday of last week.
Broad basis for challenge to G8 About 150 people came to a meeting at Manchester University last week to discuss organising for the Make Poverty History campaign and the G8 protests in July.
Until 1970 strict Indian patenting laws, covering pharmaceuticals, food and agricultural products, meant that most medicines had to be imported at some of the highest prices in the world. India had almost no domestic drug manufacturing capability.
Parents, school students and campaigners gathered outside Downing Street in London last Saturday to protest against the way the education system fails black children.
The adademies programme is central to New Labour’s education policy for the third term. Academies are private schools which sponsors are given millions of pounds of public money to run.
Respect's George Galloway has defeated pro-war Labour MP Oona King to win the east London seat of Bethnal Green & Bow in the British general election, in a stunning victory for the left and the anti-war movement.
Around 300 people gathered in Glasgow last Saturday for a conference on "Voices from Africa, Voices of Resistance".
Forty Asian workers are gathered outside the Ambala Foods factory in Stratford, east London. They stand in small groups chatting in several different languages, playing cards or eating curry from polystyrene bowls.
No welcome for academy plan Teachers and parents got an excellent response from the public when they petitioned last weekend against plans to introduce city academies into Islington, north London.
Birmingham Teams of volunteers flocked to Salma Yaqoob’s campaign headquarters over the weekend and distributed 3,000 placards around the Sparkbrook & Small Heath constituency. Others spent many hours canvassing, distributing campaign material and organising.
Striking workers closed Glasgow’s subway system for four days from Friday of last week. The workers, members of the T&G union, struck in support of their pay claim and against attacks on conditions.
