The frontlines in the fight against fracking have moved to just outside the village of Little Plumpton, near Blackpool.
The Tories are trying to scapegoat GPs for the NHS emergency
IT workers in Manchester are resisting a multinational firm's attack. Fujitsu is holding down pay, robbing pensions and planning mass layoffs.
The British Red Cross declared a “humanitarian crisis” in the NHS after it was drafted in to stop the health service breaking down.
Around 600,000 people took to the streets of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, last Saturday to demand the immediate resignation of President Park Geun-hye. Protests have been rocking the country for 11 consecutive weeks—including the five weeks since parliament voted for Park’s impeachment.
Revolutionaries debated the political situation and how to shape it at the 2017 Socialist Workers Party conference
Fracking company Cuadrilla began building its new drilling site at Preston New Road near Blackpool, Lancashire, last week—and local activists are already resisting.
Teaching assistants (TAs) in Derby struck for two days last week in their battle to reverse pay cuts.
Activists and residents have occupied the Thurlow Lodge community hall on the Aylesbury Estate in Southwark, south London.
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Lords voted against the government yesterday, Monday, to support an amendment to the Higher Education and Research Bill.
Angry protesters blocked the M62 motorway on Monday evening to mark a week since police shot and killed Yassar Yaqub.
