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One hundred and eighty fitters at Marshall Aerospace, Cambridge, struck for 24 hours over pay on Tuesday of last week.

Students occupy their school Hundreds of school students staged a sit-in against the war on Iraq, and to demand the right to protest, at Alexandra Park School, north London, last week.

Holiday pay row derails Central Over 500 conductors on Central Trains struck solidly for 24 hours on Sunday in a dispute over compensation for working on bank holidays over the Christmas period.

"There are concerns about the rise of Chinese military spending, and potentially Chinese military power."Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state

Maria, a 17 year old living in rural Columbia, has a monotonous factory job, stripping the thorns off roses which her friend Blanca then packages into romantic bouquets. She shares a cramped concrete house with her sister, infant nephew and mother who demands she hand over her pay.

Senior executives of the pottery company Imerys have refused an offer by the T&G union to negotiate an alternative to pension cuts.

The scale of last Saturday’s Stop the War demonstration, which marked the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, far exceeded the expectations of many.

Kite, Electric Landlady, Titanic Days and From Croydon to CubaKirsty MacColl

The T&G union has called off a planned strike by baggage handlers working for Aviance at Heathrow airport.

A damning report by a committee of MPs has called on the government to back off from its drive to break up state education through the introduction of city academies. The academy scheme, which is at the centre of New Labour’s education policy, allows private sponsors to take over a school and largely determine its curriculum and ethos.

The View from Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, until 3 April Don McPhee’s exhibition The View from Manchester reflects the lives of ordinary people, encapsulating the world but focusing on the north west of England. What really struck me was the humanitarianism and compassion of his work.

Instead of acting to implement the findings of a public inquiry into institutional racism, a south London council is trying to use inquiry evidence given by a victimised black worker against him.