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Lecturers at the London Metropolitan University struck today across campuses in north and east London against job cuts that will destroy the university if carried through.

Bosses at the Linamar plant in Swansea yesterday sacked Rob Williams, the union convenor and vice chair of the Natiopnal Shop Stewards Network (NSSN).

Ford-Visteon workers in Belfast have been occupying their plant for over five weeks after they were sacked with no notice and no redundancy pay at the end of March.

Gordon Brown’s future as prime minister was again thrown into question last week as current and former cabinet ministers attacked him.

On May Day 150 people marched around the Bloomsbury colleges in central London to demand the London living wage of £7.45 an hour for all the staff there.

The row over MPs’ expenses just won’t go away.

There are just three weeks to go until the Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) festival in Stoke on Saturday 30 May.

Anti-fascists were out in force over the May Day bank holiday weekend campaigning to stop the British National Party (BNP) from grabbing seats in the European elections on 4 June.

Four British Tamils began a new hunger strike on Friday of last week as part of the ongoing demonstration against the Sri Lankan government’s assault on the Tamils.

What goes on in primary schools is an intensely political matter. Two important things happened last week that highlight this fact.

The end of the British occupation of southern Iraq was accompanied with the usual pomp and circumstance.

The largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the world is going to close its only factory in Britain. Is it because the company, Vestas, isn’t profitable? No – the firm’s quarterly profits have risen by 70 percent.