A pay debate is coming in the civil service. The civil service workers’ PCS union group executive representing members working in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has voted by 17 to nine to recommend a package of proposals on pay and working conditions.
A new report formally launched at the House of Lords on Wednesday of last week exposes the police treatment of anti-fracking protesters.
NHS bosses are denying thousands of people who are overweight or smokers vital operations in a bid to save cash. That is the shocking conclusion to a report by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) released today, Friday.
Raymond, a Verizon striker in the United States, tells Socialist Worker why 40,000 workers are taking part in the biggest US strike since 2011.
Racists and the right wing press went into meltdown over the election of a black Muslim woman as president of the students’ NUS union.
More than 7,000 refugees are now locked in detention camps on the Greek islands, following a European Union (EU) deal with Turkey last month. They face prison-like conditions and uncertain futures. But they are also fighting back.
Mabel Gawanas, one of the leading anti-deportation activists in the Yarl’s Wood detention centre, faces deportation to Namibia tomorrow, Thursday.
HILLARY CLINTON has defeated Bernie Sanders in the New York contest to decide who will be the Democratic Party candidate for US president.
Tory Jeremy Hunt is worried, but he won’t cave in easily
As junior doctors head into a "full walkout", other unions must join them to defend the NHS
Tory plans to force every school to become an academy would see profit-making businesses take over schools. But growing opposition could soon lead to action, reports?Sadie Robinson
When Storm Gertrude hit Scotland in January it didn’t only blow apart a wall at a privately built school in Edinburgh. It also blew the lid off the public private partnership models used to fund infrastructure projects.
