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Over 4,000 Londoners defied freezing rain today, Saturday, to march on City Hall in protest at the deepening housing crisis.

The Unite union has announced a series of 24-hour walkouts on London buses starting on Thursday of next week, 5 February, by over 20,000 bus drivers. This will be followed by strikes on 13 and 16 February.

Workers at Barnsley College began a three-day strike today, Thursday, to defend their jobs and conditions.

Many health workers in England are frustrated that unions have called off strikes planned for this Thursday and next month.

Calls for a moratorium on fracking were defeated in parliament this week by 308 votes to 52. Most Labour MPs abstained in the vote.

Defence support Group (DSG) bosses made workers a new offer on Monday of this week in the hope of ending a dispute that saw 16 days of strikes at the end of last year.

Workers at Barnsley College were set to begin a three-day strike on Thursday of this week.

Lecturers vote to accept offer | Kevin Courtney re-elected as NUT deputy general secretary

When anti-racists march in Britain on Saturday 21 March, they will be joining an international movement—particularly important in Greece.

It’s been a bad week for the racist Ukip party. Senior MEP Amjad Bashir defected to the Tories—prompting claims from Ukip that it had suspended him.

More than 200, mostly black, people came to hear US civil rights activist Al Sharpton address Operation Black Vote’s general election campaign launch meeting last Saturday.

The stench of a cover-up surrounding the Iraq war inquiry is growing ever stronger. Inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot confirmed to David Cameron last week that his report would not be ready until after the general election.