Issues Follow Follow

This exhibition brings together six artist from Britain and the Middle East. The subject is the Iraq war and the paintings and installations range from the abstract to the overty satirical.

At the end of last month the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced, "The IPCC has confirmed that none of the West Midlands police officers acquitted of criminal offences following the death of Michael Powell, 38, in police custody on 7 September 2003 are to face disciplinary charges."

Hundreds of council workers in Glasgow are poised to take industrial action after their overtime payments were cut under a single status pay deal.

The NUT teachers’ union conference last weekend showed the anger at Gordon Brown’s public sector pay freeze, and the desire for unity to break it.

On 22 March, three South Asian men were arrested in Beeston. Subsequently it has been reported that they were being held for questioning in relation to bomb attacks in London. Police were given first one week and subsequently another week’s extension to hold the men for questioning in London.

NUT teachers’ conference: ‘At some point you have to make a stand’

The NUT conference passed a motion calling for a political fund. The idea of a political fund has caused arguments at previous conferences – but there was general agreement over the issue this year.

Hank Roberts, who has been part of a group occupying the site of a proposed academy on the Wembley Park sports ground in north London for the past two weeks, introduced a motion on Building Schools for the Future (BSF) at the NUT conference.

New Labour offers no hope for young people over gun and knife crime

It is a dark time for the New Deal scheme, first introduced by Labour in 1998. Despite helping 1.7 million unemployed people into work by providing them with training and subsidised employment, the government has welcomed suggestions that it may no longer be "fit for purpose" and should become more of a "brand name" than a programme.

"Gordon Brown is trying to restrict millions of public sector workers to a 2 percent rise at a time when inflation is 4.6 percent. We need to challenge him.