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The forgetful Foreign Office has just admitted to the existence of a hitherto secret archive of 1.2 million files recording how Britain ran its empire.

Activists plan to protest at parliament over changes to young children’s education. 

pcs union members in the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) department and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were set to strike for a day on Friday of this week. 

Construction workers were set to protest at the Ferrybridge waste into fuel power plant in West Yorkshire on Wednesday of this week.

Council workers in South Gloucestershire called off a planned strike last week after management made them an offer.

Workers in the UCU, Unison and Unite unions in universities are set to strike over pay on Thursday 31 October. 

Probation officers in the Napo union have voted overwhelming to strike over Tory plans to privatise their service.

Postal workers have voted to strike by 78 percent on a 63 percent turnout in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions. 

The Tories’ new Immigration Bill returned to Parliament for a second reading on Tuesday of this week.

A decade ago the then-chair of the Tory party Theresa May said the Tories needed to lose their image as the “nasty party”.

The Trinidadian Marxist CLR James broke new ground in the study of racism and revolutions, says Christian Hogsbjerg

Southwark council summonsed more than 5,000 poor households to Camberwell Magistrates Court on Friday of last week because of council tax arrears.