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Fujitsu managers were rattled by the determination of their Manchester staff to stand up for their rights last week.

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

In Somalia US warplanes and Ethiopian attack helicopters have killed up to 70 nomadic tribesmen, while the pro-US militia is spreading terror among ordinary people. So says Dahabo Isse of the Somali Civil Liberties and Human Rights Organisation.

Over 200 people came to a meeting on Monday to campaign against the government’s attacks on one of the last and most important rights possessed by asylum seekers – the right to free English classes (Esol) and further education courses.

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

The anti-war movement in the US has reacted with outrage at George Bush’s plans to ratchet up the war in Iraq. It is mobilising for a monster demonstration through Washington on 27 January.

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Chancellor Gordon Brown’s plan to slash over 100,000 jobs across the civil service will have a terrible effect on essential public services.

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.

Egyptian opposition activists are calling on anti-war groups and unions to send delegates to the 5th Cairo Conference, 29 March-1 April, 2007.

It is the ending of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto that unlocks its secret. Three ships rest in the bay as a boat containing missionaries and soldiers drifts towards to the shore. After nearly two and a half hours of violence, blood and savagery, civilisation arrives silently to save the poor primitives from themselves.

Gordon Brown’s civil service job cuts won’t just mean misery for the poor – they will also deliver an even easier ride for the richest in society.