Swansea University Lecturers the AUT union are organising protests at the suspension of Colwyn Williamson from Swansea University. The university vice chancellor has used discretionary powers to push through what union activists see as a case of victimisation. Colwyn has been banned from entering university premises and denied access to his university e-mail account.
The ballot papers are out and tenants and leaseholders are beginning to vote on the Arms Length Management Organisation (Almo) proposal for council housing in Haringey.
Some 30 supporters of Bristol Defend Asylum Seekers Campaign, Student Action for Refugees, Respect, Bristol NUT teachers’ union branch and other organisations protested outside Downing Street on Monday.
Left to Tony Blair and Michael Howard we have six weeks of rancid reaction ahead.
The threat of a strike by 1.25 million workers this Wednesday, escalating to involve others across the public sector, has forced a climbdown by the New Labour government over pensions.
In Shakespeare’s play King Lear we see the old king speaking some incredible sanity just at the moment that he appears to be going mad. He is having visions and sees "the great image of authority" as a "dog obeyed in office".
There was a deep feeling on last Saturday’s demonstration that people should use the expected general election to punish Tony Blair.
‘I’m here today with people I work with. It’s about supporting the whole anti-war movement and about being a leftist. This is supposed to be a democracy, but none of the parties are really left wing any more. I voted Labour last time, but this time round I’m definitely voting Respect. It’s a working class vote.’Gus Jakhu, postal worker from Leicester
Students occupy their school Hundreds of school students staged a sit-in against the war on Iraq, and to demand the right to protest, at Alexandra Park School, north London, last week.
The scale of last Saturday’s Stop the War demonstration, which marked the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, far exceeded the expectations of many.
A damning report by a committee of MPs has called on the government to back off from its drive to break up state education through the introduction of city academies. The academy scheme, which is at the centre of New Labour’s education policy, allows private sponsors to take over a school and largely determine its curriculum and ethos.
African-Caribbean children are more than three times as likely to be excluded from school as white pupils, according to independent research done for the government.
