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Gordon Brown will face a test of his plans to hold down public sector pay after the announcement of a three-year pay deal for teachers in England and Wales this week.

Up to 100 members of the Unite union, representing construction workers from across the north west of England, demonstrated through the streets of Manchester at the start of this year.

Teachers in England and Wales are still waiting for the government to announce their pay deal for 2008‑11. The School Teachers Review Body (STRB) on pay gave its recommendations on teachers’ pay to the government in October, but it has yet to respond.

Workers in Argos in the Republic of Ireland were set for their third 24-hour strike today (Tuesday) in a dispute that has seen Argos management flying in scabs from England to try and break the strike.

More than 300 trade unionists from the north east of England last week packed into a social to defend the NHS.

"Oh dear. Not again." So read the headline on the front page of last week’s music paper the NME. The words appeared below a quote from Morrissey, in which the former lead singer of The Smiths was alleged to have said: "The gates of England are flooded. The country’s been thrown away."

Around 50 students representing university and student groups from around England and Wales attended the Student Respect conference last Sunday.

Across the north east of England people are asking questions about property developments and the role of the Labour Party.

In 1845 Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland and began a speaking tour that would take him across Scotland and England.

Teachers in England and Wales look set to have their pay held down to a 2 percent "rise" each year for the next three years.

Few Socialist Worker readers will have an Irish language DVD in their film collection. Well here’s a chance to get two, subtitled in English!

There is a gaping hole in what passes for British history taught in many of our schools. While many students will know of an English civil war fought between King Charles I and parliament in the 1640s, few will get any sense of the revolutionary process that brought Oliver Cromwell to power as England’s first non-royal head of state.