AROUND 120 cleaners working at Southampton Institute stuck on Monday over pay and job losses.
A CRUCIAL battle is coming in the civil service. The results of the strike ballot in the PCS civil servants' union was due out shortly after Socialist Worker went to press.
THE GOVERNMENT is arrogantly pushing ahead with its plans for university top-up fees.
IT COULD have been a scene from the darkest chapters of the British Empire.
A BARELY noticed campaign by right wing papers and business lobbyists to turn Britain's workplace safety watchdog into a toothless poodle has caught the ear of New Labour.
\"WE ARE now at the beginning of a journey which will replace the concept of a public service with a free market in higher education, a journey towards the Americanisation of English higher education.
ANGER IS growing over the French government's plans to ban the Muslim headscarf, known as the hijab, from schools.
OVER 150 representatives and activists from across Birmingham's Muslim community attended an emergency meeting on 4 January in Birmingham's central mosque.
ARCHIE FROM south London says that a sale at a student hall of residence was a big success. Three people sold 14 copies of the paper in just one block of residences used by art students from across London.
COUNCIL TENANTS in Camden, London, have dealt a major blow to the government's strategy to privatise council housing.
THE LABOUR Party has threatened to disaffiliate the RMT rail union for allowing union members to decide on where their subs go.
UNISON MEMBERS in Newham council look set to get the go-ahead for an official strike ballot to fight the New Labour authority's attack on their union.
