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The Tories are talking up the prospect of winning a vote for airstrikes in Syria.

Workers at Barnet council in north London were set to strike for 24 hours on Wednesday of this week. 

US bombs killed 22 people in a hospital in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan last Saturday. The dead included 12 doctors and ten patients. 

‘It’s important to do the stuff behind the scenes’

National Gallery strikers marched back to work on Monday of this week after beating bosses’ attacks on their terms and conditions. They had been on  111 days of strikes against privatisation.

Unite union general secretary Len McCluskey offered last week to abandon opposition to a key section of David Cameron’s new Trade Union Bill.

Manchester this week was a tale of two cities. One is behind the police cordons and giant metal security fence. Within this enclosure the rich and powerful mixed in comfort.

Terrible violence marred last Sunday’s protest against the Tories in Manchester. It was a sorry day for the movement against austerity.

Sacked PCS union rep Candy Udwin won her reinstatement after an all-out strike at the National Gallery.

A big turnout on last Sunday’s TUC march shows a growing mood to fight, Socialist Worker reports

An inquest court has heard evidence about the alteration of police statements in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster.

More than 800 junior doctors marched in Manchester on Tuesday of last week to chants of “Tories out” and “strike, strike, strike”.