CAMPAIGNERS are stepping up action to defend Naseh Ghafor, the 20 year old Kurdish refugee who is being threatened with deportation to Iraq.
KEY WORKERS at British Airways (BA) have called a one-day strike over the bank holiday period unless the company improves its pay offer.
A NEW proposal has come out of the negotiations over Agenda for Change (AfC), the sweeping reform across the NHS.
STRIKE ACTION taken by the workers at the Edrington Famous Grouse whisky factory in Glasgow has won a 3.5 percent pay rise each year for the next three years.
WORKERS IN Swansea council’s information and communications technology department have begun an indefinite strike following a 97 percent vote for action in a ballot.
More than 50 people gathered in Cambridgeshire on Saturday of last week to ensure the Nazi National Front’s threatened demonstration at Oakington Immigration Centre didn’t take place.
President Hugo Chavez has won a resounding victory in a referendum designed to topple him and the government of Venezuela – a government hated by the rich and powerful in both Caracas and Washington.
Babar Ahmad was arrested last December in one of home secretary David Blunkett’s "terror" raids. The 30 year old IT worker from Tooting, south London, was released without charge a week later.
‘I want you to know the truth about my son. Despite everything that has happened, all the lies and ridiculous allegations, I still believe justice will be done.
Ashfaq Ahmad was speaking at a conference in Tooting, south London, last Sunday to protest against harassment of Muslims by police.
"FOR OVER 16 years we have been used as political scapegoats. The police told us from the start they knew we hadn’t done it." Paddy Hill one of the Birmingham Six—a group wrongly convicted of terrorist bombing—on his release in March 1991
Arshad Suhail Masih is one of the many refugee prisoners held at Dungavel prison near Glasgow.
