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Most people will be understandably horrified by Isis’s latest atrocity, the burning alive of Jordanian military pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh. 

The need for a raging protest against racism was pushed home last week as David Cameron stepped up his scapegoating of migrants.

A new report by the Kings Fund health charity has damned the Tories’ NHS reforms in England.

Turn on the news, and it can seem like everyone’s against you. There’s smarmy Tory prime minister David Cameron boasting that conditions for the bosses had “not been this good for a long time”. 

The Islamophobic Prevent Strategy, which demands that workers in the public sector spy on Muslims, is set to become law. Ken Olende explains what the counter-terrorism bill will mean

The Rotherham abuse scandal has led some to celebrate Britain’s “progressive” society.

As a new television drama looks at British rule in India, Nick Clark looks at the exploitation, famines and massacres that were the brutal reality of the Empire

Also: National Libraries Day protests and a "smart" rally in Manchester

National Gallery workers in London completed a five-day strike last Saturday.

Oil refinery workers in the United States have walked out in their first national strike in 35 years.

The Stonewall Riots of 1969 heralded the birth of the fight for LGBT liberation in the US and Britain says Ellie May. 

The regime in Jordan claims to have carried out at least 56 airstrikes on Islamist group Isis since last Thursday.