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London bus workers in the Unite union were set to take their campaign to City Hall on Wednesday of this week.

Around 100 people came to a Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) gig in Stafford on Friday of last week organised by community website » StaffordForum.com.

Around 500 people attended the fifth annual Historical Materialism conference in central London last weekend.

The national executive of the PCS civil service workers’ union last week voted to suspend a strike by 270,000 members over pay, which was due to take place on Monday.

The public sector pay fight suffered a serious setback last week when the NUT teachers’ union decided not to call further strikes over pay. This was good news for the government and employers.

When Gordon Brown condemned excessive bonuses, perhaps he meant the £10 million bonus given to consultancy firm CLM last year.

The Bank of England announced a record interest rate cut of 1.5 percent last Thursday – cutting interest rates to their lowest level since 1955.

On Tuesday of last week – the night of the US elections – Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, ordered an attack on the Gaza Strip designed to scupper a truce that gave a welcome respite to the suffering of Palestinians.

If you’ve got money maybe you can buy some extra life. If you haven’t you’re only worth what the NHS can afford. That will be the effect of the government’s decision last week to allow cancer patients to pay for extra drugs without forfeiting NHS treatment.

Around 200 people protested in Manchester last Saturday against the killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the deportation of Congolese asylum seekers.

A growing wave of protests and occupations continues to sweep Italy in opposition to the government’s programme of savage education cuts.

Ireland Ireland’s biggest union Siptu has announced a strike of Aer Lingus workers for next week over the airline’s plans to make 74 million euros worth of cuts.