Up to 700 people joined a refugee solidarity rally organised by Stand Up to Racism in central London last night, Wednesday.
Thousands of students marched through central London yesterday, Wednesday. They were protesting against Tory plans to scrap the Maintenance Grant, given to students from lower income households, and racist scapegoating.
Bosses at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London have withdrawn the suspension of Unison union branch secretary Sandy Nicoll.
A conveniently leaked 15-page US military intelligence report described Shaker Aamer as a “close associate of” Osama bin Laden with a history of “jihadist combat”.
As immigration controls lead to deaths at both ends of Europe, the Tories are tightening them further.
An ill 84 year old man travelling through Britain spent his last weeks being jailed, shackled and humiliated because of “Home Office procedure”, an inquest heard last week.
Teachers at St Wilfrid’s Catholic High School in Featherstone, west Yorkshire, struck today, Tuesday, in a dispute over “leadership and management issues”.
Metals company Caparo Industries announced 452 job cuts on Friday of last week, after going into administration last month.
The British Medical Association (BMA) was to set to ballot its 56,000 junior doctor members for industrial action from Thursday of this week.
Delegates at the Scottish Labour Party conference last weekend voted to campaign to scrap Trident nuclear weapons.
Voting in the Unison union general secretary election opens on Monday of next week—and activists are launching a left wing challenge to incumbent Dave Prentis.
The deadline for returning ballot papers in the GMB union’s general secretary election has been extended until Wednesday of next week.
