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Former political prisoner and Black Panther Geronimo Pratt died last week aged 63. He is believed to have died of natural causes in Tanzania where he had settled and worked as a human rights activist.

George Osborne’s sneering smile said it all as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) heaped praise upon his economic vision for Britain this week.

Home secretary Theresa May this week announced plans to make the government’s Prevent programme even more draconian.

Nottingham City Homes staff are accusing the company of racial discrimination after being suspended for varying lengths of time—from five months to 15 months—on full pay.

GMB union members at DBC Foodservices in Ayrshire are set to strike for five days against a host of imposed changes to their working conditions.

Hundreds of thousands of workers are preparing to turn Thursday 30 June into a major day of resistance against the Tories.

Striking workers in Southampton will rally on Monday of next week as they escalate their action against pay cuts.

Thousands of low-paid workers could drop out of public sector pension schemes if the Tories increase their contributions.

Over 17,000 council workers in Birmingham and Doncaster are voting on whether to strike against the cuts.

Royal Mail appears to have backed down in the fight over job losses in London—at least temporarily.

The latest E coli outbreak has already claimed the lives of 22 people and infected more than 2,000 people across the world.

More than 350 PCS and Unite union members at the Equality and Human Rights Commission walked out for an hour on Monday in a bid to save their service.