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The cases of the protesters arrested on the demonstration against George Bush’s visit to London in June last year are slowly moving through the courts.

Around 20 workers from the Stead McAlpin factory in Cummersdale, near Carlisle, protested at the John Lewis store in Liverpool city centre last Saturday as part of their jobs fight.

Cleaner Alberto Durango was reported to immigration by his bosses after building a union at his workplace and campaigning for the London living wage.

Eurostar cleaners at St Pancras International station in London have voted overwhelmingly to boycott the fingerprinting machines their bosses have installed to replace clocking on and off machines.

Bosses at the Linamar (former Visteon) plant in Swansea have upheld the sacking of Unite union convenor Rob Williams.

Ford-Visteon workers won a tremendous victory in their struggle for justice last week – but their fight is by no means over.

Chris Woodhead, the former head of the Ofsted schools inspectorate, says middle class children have better genes than those from working class homes.

Many socialists will be surprised to see the Daily Express campaigning for a group of immigrants to be welcomed to Britain.

The fascist British National Party (BNP) has attempted over the past few years to rebrand itself as a "respectable" party of the mainstream.

The British government has been very keen to give the impression that it cares about the appalling plight of Sri Lanka’s Tamils. Following demonstrations outside parliament by thousands of Tamils, foreign secretary David Miliband went to the capital Colombo and called for a ceasefire. Gordon Brown created a new post for Des Browne as "special envoy" to Sri Lanka.

Egyptian authorities have cancelled the Cairo Conference, organisers have confirmed.

Pakistan’s military offensive on rebels in the Swat Valley marks a dangerous turn for a region reeling from the US occupation of Afghanistan.