British Airways (BA) has won a court injunction to stop some 14,000 cabin crew workers from taking strike action. They were set to begin a 12-day strike on Tuesday of next week.
Eyebrows might be raised at the news that the Imperial War Museum in London is endorsing a new history of anti-war movements in Britain from the last century.
Faced with growing anger in Britain at the bloody war in Afghanistan, prime minister Gordon Brown last month chose to put the blame for its failures on Pakistan.
Pakistan was formed in 1947 when the British Empire partitioned the Indian subcontinent as it withdrew. The new state was proclaimed as a "Muslim nation", but it was made up of six different linguistic groups, each with different traditions.
Stop the War groups last week held events to commemorate the 100th British soldier killed in Afghanistan this year. This grim milestone comes as US president Barack Obama and Gordon Brown send more troops to the country.
Occupying the CBI’s Scottish headquarters
Student supporters of the Right to Work campaign occupied the Scottish headquarters of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in Glasgow, taking their anger at cuts in education and services to Britain’s most powerful pro-business group.
Alistair Darling last week told Britain’s 5.8 million public sector workers that pay rises would be capped at just 1 percent and that their pension benefits could not last much longer.
"We’re not a militant bunch of people, but we’ve been forced to do something," says Julie, a long haul cabin crew worker at British Airways (BA). "If we don’t stand up now we don’t know what will happen next."
