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The Tories are scrambling to try and contain an outpouring of anger over student exam results. Fury at the downgrading of hundreds of thousands of students’ grades has pushed education secretary Gavin Williamson into a humiliating retreat.

Around 2,500 Debenhams workers were cruelly sacked by profiteering bosses on Tuesday, as the retail giant announced massive cuts in the department stores and warehouses. 

Class, not ability, determines what grades you get in school— and the exams fiasco in Scotland made that explicit.  

People are paying with their lives as extreme weather hits across the world, reports Sarah Bates

Britain is in the middle of a horrific jobs slaughter—some 730,000 jobs have already gone since March. 

Hundreds of thousands of workers held a two-day walkout last week as confirmed coronavirus cases in India passed two million

UCU union activists planed protests and rallies on Thursday this week against mass job cuts and the gutting of education.

Activists at the forefront of the pay revolt have come out against union leaders’ attempts to dampen down workers’ demands.  

Thousands of defiant protesters clashed with riot police on the streets of Belarus in eastern Europe on Sunday.

Fifty million face masks purchased by the government from a private equity investment company can’t be used by the NHS because they failed to meet basic safety requirements.

Over 100 workers at the Tate galleries in London are set to strike next week over job cuts.

SUPPORT IS growing for Paul Holmes to be the next Unison union general secretary. Nominations for the post opened this week.