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Tony Blair promises us a "generation" of war. Standing on HMS Albion, a naval assault ship, he ranted last week about the need for decades of conflict, and how the British people had to harden themselves for the coming clashes.

TV licensing strike scheduled

British Airways (BA) cabin crew have voted overwhelmingly for a strike over "management by imposition and the breakdown of respect".

Some 60 people struck at Denso Manufacturing in Birmingham last Thursday.

The campaign to defend Yunus Bakhsh, a leading activist in the Unison union, is gaining momentum.

On Tuesday 16 January Yunus Bakhsh, one of the best known left activists in Unison, was suspended from office in the union.

The government and the PCS civil service workers’ union have released details of new proposals for the pension scheme.

Bill Nuti, president and chief executive of bank machine makers NCR – who was paid £2 million last year – couldn’t find the time to tell his staff that their jobs were being axed. So he had a film made of himself breaking the news.

Simone Clarke is a principal dancer with the English National Ballet – and also a card carrying member of the fascist British National Party (BNP).

Tube train drivers on the Northern Line have won an important victory in a battle against the sacking of one of their colleagues.

After a sequence of speeches about the so-called dangers of segregated communities and the wearing of the veil, a picture is emerging of New Labour going into the next election.

The Unison union’s local government service group executive decided last week that new proposals over pensions were unacceptable.