Despite last week’s strike action over pensions being called off, Wakefield Unison local government branch and Wakefield trades council went ahead with their planned lunchtime rally.
With shouts of "Tony Blair, he don’t care," angry former steelworkers took to the streets of Cardiff last Saturday as part of the campaign to win back their lost pensions.
A family of Roma asylum seekers from Kosovo has been released from the Yarl’s Wood detention centre after a campaign led by Glasgow school students.
Delegates to the conference of the largest teachers’ union, the NUT, were determined to push home the government’s climbdown over its pension plans.
UNITE AGAINST Fascism has issued an open letter about the campaign in Keighley, West Yorkshire, where British National Party leader Nick Griffin is set to stand as a general election candidate.
Hospital workers fight for equal pay Cleaners, porters and catering staff at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital planned to strike this week — and have threatened to escalate their action if their equal pay demand is not met.
There were at least 40 independent socialist bookshops across the country in the late 1970s. Today there are no more than a handful. Last month the Guardian website launched a campaign to support all independent bookshops that still survive, publishing endorsements from loyal customers keen to protect what many see as an endangered species.
The British government is using international aid money to promote the privatisation of water and sanitation services across the world.
The conference of the largest teachers’ union has slammed the New Labour government and the TUC’s policy of working in partnership with it.
The newly elected general secretary of the NUT, Steve Sinnott, told the conference he wanted to see thousands of his members marching behind the union’s national banner on the protest at the G8 summit in Scotland in July.
Tony Blair's government is involved in a cover-up over the killing of the British United Nations (UN) official Iain Hook, who was shot in the back by an Israeli soldier in 2002.
We have exposed a massive amount of wealth being hidden away by the super-rich — which they pay no tax on at all.
