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Cabin crew at British Airways (BA) will finish their ballot for strikes on Friday of this week. All signs are that the vote will deliver an overwhelming vote for strikes.

Over 1,200 Unite union members will be starting a work to rule and overtime ban at the National Grid.

Some 1,000 marched on Haringey council, stopping traffic on Wood Green High Road, over cuts on Monday.

Up to 500 people marched against the cuts in Portsmouth last Saturday.

Some 342 workers at Burton’s Foods have been told that they will be sacked and the Wirral factory closed.

More than 200 people from the legal and voluntary sectors converged on parliament on Wednesday of last week. Many of them were trade unionists.

The revolution that is ripping through Tunisia has led to celebrations across the Arab world and beyond.

Revolutions often appear to come from nowhere. People living under a brutal regime who for generations have got on with their everyday lives—making a living, studying—suddenly revolt.

The new NHS bill this week will lay the legislative foundations for the privatisation of the NHS.

China's leaders are busy touring the globe. President Hu Jintao has been visiting the US a week after vice-premier Li Keqiang, whom Hu backs as the next prime minister, did the rounds of the European Union (EU).

The pictures from Brazil, where well over 600 people have already died in the floods and mudslides, are all too familiar. However it was the floods in Australia that got most of the attention.

Michael Lyons has got a fight on his hands—and he intends to win it. He is a 24 year old Navy medic, and a conscientious objector. He believes that the US and British occupation of Afghanistan is based on lies and greed.