Voting started this week in the Labour leadership election.
Tory MP Eric Pickles said that authorities are “turning a blind eye” to election fraud among Muslims in a new government report published last Friday.
Glasgow school janitors began a five-day strike on Monday in a long-running dispute over pay with bosses at Cordia, a city council-owned firm.
Around 200 LGBT+ people and supporters joined a mass “kiss-in” in a Sainsbury’s supermarket branch in Hackney, east London, last Saturday.
The CWU union, which organises postal workers, has warned Royal Mail that its members could strike. This follows reports that bosses plan to attack workers’ pensions.
Some 2,000 RMT union members working on Virgin Trains East Coast were set to strike for 24 hours from 3am on Friday of this week.
The RMT union suspended a strike by train guards on Southern Railway last Wednesday for talks “with no pre-conditions”.
A series of strikes by outsourced Wood Group workers on Shell North Sea offshore platforms, set to begin on Wednesday, were suspended by the Unite and RMT unions.
Riders for the Deliveroo delivery company protested outside the company’s offices in central London last week. Strikes and protests by riders over attacks on pay forced bosses to make concessions this week.
Labour’s right are trying to discredit supporters of party leader Jeremy Corbyn by labelling them “extremists” and “entryists”.
Jeremy Corbyn supporters have spoken out against attacks on them by the right wing of the Labour Party.
The racist Ukip party is losing money and members. It was over £850,000 in deficit last year and its membership dropped 4.5 percent.
