French railways at a standstill | Santos re-elected in Colombia | South African miners to settle?
Hunger striking detainee Abdallah El Shamy has been released from prison after protests within Egypt and world wide.
More than 400 people attended the Unite Against Fascism (UAF) conference in London last Saturday.
Tony Blair has called for a new war on Iraq in the wake of the crisis erupting in the country.
Former Sheffield Wednesday safety officer Graham Mackrell this week gave evidence at new inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool football fans.
Police racism not dealt with | Jury out in hacking trial | Lloyd Butler inquest begins | Asian man dies after cop stop
Local government workers are up for a fight at the Unison union's conference, and civil service workers are protesting outside their workplaces
The Unison union’s local government conference took place in Brighton on Monday and Tuesday of this week. The conference hall simmered with anger at Tory austerity and policies that benefit the rich. Unison’s strike ballot of 600,000 members against a miserly 1 percent pay offer from bosses will put them potentially at the head of a strike of up to 1.4 million public sector workers on 10 July.
Big majority for action at Newsquest | Hall cleaners fight to keep their jobs | Teachers to walk out over redundancies | NUT general secretary election | Gwalia care workers defend conditions | Justice for Domestic Workers protest
