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TRINITY MIRROR Southern, one of Britain’s biggest newspaper publishers, last week went to the high court to stop ten of its staff from striking. Members of the NUJ journalists’ union on the Enfield Advertiser struck on Wednesday of last week against cuts caused by the merging of the subediting departments of four Trinity Mirror titles across north London.

BALLOT PAPERS for the election for the general secretary of Britain’s biggest public sector union, Unison, are sent out on 25 January. Socialist Worker spoke to United Left candidate Jon Rogers.

IT TOOK immense pressure from ordinary people to force the British and US governments to come up with the—still inadequate—aid they have now offered.

COUNTERS WORKERS struck in almost 300 post offices across Britain on Christmas Eve.

"I don’t think I’ve ever been as depressed coming out of Death Row as I was leaving that place. It was terribly shocking."Clive Stafford Smith, human rights campaigner and lawyer for British Guantanamo detainees Moazzam Begg and Richard Belmar, after visiting them in their cells

Kennington Common, the area in London where Kennington Park and the Imperial War Museum now stand, was the scene of one of Britain’s most famous working class demonstrations on Monday 10 April 1848.

HUNDREDS OF workers at Interbrew’s four breweries in Britain are to ballot for industrial action after the company refused to accept national bargaining with unions.

A BLIND woman from Sri Lanka faces deportation unless David Blunkett uses his discretionary powers to grant her exceptional leave to stay in Britain on humanitarian grounds.

Peterloo, a demonstration for the vote and democratic rights which took place at St Peter’s Field Manchester on Monday 16 August 1819, is a landmark event in British working class history.

Two of the biggest student protests on campuses in Britain for many years have just taken place. Some 1,700 students at Exeter University and 2,000 at Cambridge University demonstrated against planned department closures.

POST OFFICE counters workers across Britain are voting on strikes in protest at unacceptable Christmas arrangements which are an insult to both staff and claimants.

ONE OF David Blunkett’s new proposals is for special "terror trials" that involve a judge sitting without a jury. Such jury-free (Diplock) courts have been routinely used in Northern Ireland since the 1970s.