Tower Transit workers strike
Rail workers’ union RMT held a series of campaigning events on Monday of this week against the threat to jobs, fares and services from new franchises on the Northern and Trans-Pennine Express routes.
Workers at Lambeth College in south London were set to begin a two-day strike on Wednesday of this week.
The true horrors of the European Union’s “Fortress Europe” have been revealed again over the new year.
Ukip’s fear of being called racist shows that there’s a solid base to build a fightback against the hard right party, writes Sadie Robinson
The Tories hope they can lie their way back into Downing Street.
A poll released just after Christmas put the SNP on 43 percent and Labour on 26 percent.
Tenants were celebrating at the New Era estate in Hackney, east London last month, after beating the corporation that had planned to kick them out and treble the rent.
A man died after police tasered him last month. Adrian McDonald collapsed and later died after police were called to an address in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
A Downing Street report into the aftermath of the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike showed how close Margaret Thatcher’s government “came to disaster”. The National Archives released the document under the 30-year rule.
A great battle is taking place in Greece between the forces of capital and those who want to hurl off the chains of austerity.
Prince Andrew scuttled from his £22,000 a week Swiss chalet this week to make sure his spin doctors briefed the media that he’s teetotal and doesn’t like parties.
