Parents and school workers have reacted with fear and fury to Boris Johnson’s announcement that schools could start to reopen from next month.
Boris Johnson has opened the door to herd people back to work before it is safe. But widespread support for keeping the lockdown stopped him from going as far as he wanted in his speech on Sunday night.
Workers fear unemployment and poverty if the Tories slash the Job Retention Scheme
Some of the world’s most high-profile polluters are faltering in the coronavirus crisis. And already, it seems like good news for the environment.
Some international students are “starving” during the coronavirus lockdown, a charity has warned. And new research published this week shows that Asian students have also suffered an increase in racism.
Trade unionists and campaigners are staging a day of action to demand “no return to unsafe workplaces”.
Activists have taken their anger at the climate crisis straight to one of the drivers of the ecological catastrophe
This week we are encouraged to celebrate VE Day, which marked an end to the bloody fighting of the Second World War in Europe on 8 May 1945.
Medway trades union council organised a drive-by this week to show solidarity with eight suspended bin workers.
New film Planet of the Humans could damage the environmental movement
Are the cops preparing the ground for repression? They already have extra powers under new laws, such as to fine those deemed to be breaching the rules.
Errol Graham, who died of starvation when his benefits were cut off, had become so mentally distressed that his family believe he pulled out two of his own teeth with pliers.
