A sergeant in the Royal Marines was convicted of murder last week after footage of him shooting an unarmed injured Afghan prisoner was shown in court.
Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe gave an incorrect statement relating to the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster.
The inquest into the death of Mark Duggan, who police shot dead in 2011, has heard of breakdowns in communication.
Women manufacturing workers in the Unite union were set to protest outside the AGM of Smiths Group on Tuesday of next week.
Some 400 Pupil Support Assistants (PSAs) in Glasgow walked out on strike on Wednesday of last week in the north east area of the city.
Education secretary Michael Gove has sent a provocative letter to the NUT and NASUWT teaching unions, which are in dispute over attacks on pay, pensions and conditions.
Higher education unions have called a national strike for Tuesday 3 December.
Strong pickets joined the fourth strike in two months in south Gloucester libraries on Saturday of last week.
Cleaners at Sheffield’s Park Academy struck last Wednesday for £7.45 per hour living wage.
Cleaners in the GMB union protested at the College of North East London in Tottenham on Friday of last week.
Around 900 people attended the tenth annual Historical Materialism conference in London last week. Canadian Marxist David McNally gave the Deutscher Memorial Prize lecture.
Socialist Workers Party members have submitted an emergency motion to the upcoming conference of the PCS union’s Left Unity group.
