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‘Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the UN’

Seven education unions are preparing for a mass lobby of parliament on Wednesday 26 October to protest at the government’s pensions assault.

Trade unionists in Worthing, on the south coast, are preparing for the 30 November strikes.

Unison general secretary Dave Prentis set the Labour Party conference alight on Monday, winning an unexpected standing ovation.

Blue Labour. The Purple Book. Or maybe Red Ed?

Previously in this series we looked at how capitalism divides people into two main classes. The rulers own the means of production while the rest of us—workers—have to work for them.

The king of Saudi Arabia has announced that women citizens will finally be given the right to vote in municipal elections.

Can we really beat the Tories? That question is being asked in workplaces, union meetings and streets up and down the country.

Victimised Unite bus convenor Abdul Omer Mohsin has his Employment Tribunal on 7 November.

Elderly people from the Caribbean Senior Citizens Association marched on Haringey council last week.

Travellers at Dale Farm have won two extensions of an injunction to stop Basildon council from evicting them.

Notts Unison members protested outside the council against the proposed sale of six elderly persons’ homes to the private sector. The Runwood organisation which has bought the homes only has to commit to keep them as homes for three years.