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"We will stand united against the EDL," declared a trade unionist at a 250-strong meeting in Wellington, Telford, last week.

"When the news of the Norway attacks came out most people’s first reaction was deep shock. Whatever the context, the massacre of so many young people in cold blood was horrific.

The Nazi British National Party (BNP) booted out its London regional secretary Chris Hurst last week after pictures emerged of him making "sieg heil" salutes.

There are just a few weeks left to fight a planned eviction of Travellers living at Dale Farm in Essex.

A report into Remploy, the government-supported programme that provides employment for disabled people, could sound the death knell for the firm’s 54 British factories.

If you go to an academy school you’re less likely to get high grades—and more likely to be excluded. That’s the finding of an equality impact assessment of the government’s academies bill.

The fight to save jobs at the rail manufacturing firm Bombardier in Derby is continuing.

Ministry of Defence (MoD) workers met last week to discuss how to fight government attempts to cut thousands of jobs.

The Berlin Wall was built 50 years ago this week, on 13 August 1961. For nearly 30 years, until its demolition in 1989, it served as a symbol of the division between the "free" West and the "Communist" East. The real story is a little more complicated.

The monthly meeting of the recently-formed London’s Local Anti-Cuts Alliance took place on Wednesday of last week.

The media has condemned the riots in London as mindless acts of destruction. The Sun newspaper screamed about an "orgy of mob violence".

Lawyers acting for the family of a murdered private detective have called for a new public inquiry which could shed more light on corrupt relationships between the police and the media.