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There was serious overcrowding at Sheffield’s Hillsborough football stadium seven months after a disaster that led to the deaths of 96 Liverpool football fans, an inquest has heard. And post workers threaten to strike if they are made to deliver copies of the Sun newspaper.

The whole row over Jean-Claude Juncker is symbolic politics, writes Alex Callinicos

Britain’s largest ­public sector union, Unison, will hold its national conference next week against the backdrop of potential coordinated strikes involving more than a million workers.

Unison union members at Care UK in Doncaster have been told they must sign new contracts by next Monday or lose their jobs.

The PCS civil service workers’ union was set to begin consulting its 250,000 members on Thursday of this week for a mandate to join the 10 July strike.

More than 100 teachers rallied before an NUT union lobby of parliament on Tuesday of this week. 

A Tory clampdown on schools in Birmingham has unleashed a torrent of racist filth.

The moral panic the Tories and their friends in the press are whipping up over the issue of Muslims and education is about racism. There was no “Trojan horse” plot of Islamic fundamentalists to take over Birmingham schools.

The Newark by-election last week didn’t tell us much, but it told us something. The Tories saw their majority in the seat cut from 16,800 to just 7,000.

An all-out strike of lecturers in a south London college shows how to resist attacks on workers and cuts in education, reports Sadie Robinson

Hospital workers in Greece were set to strike on Wednesday of next week. Days earlier Tory Makis Voridis, a former Nazi, was named minister of health. Just two years ago he was head of the fascist Laos party.