Prospect Follow

Jalila al-Salman is vice president of the teachers’ union in Bahrain. She faces the prospect of a three year prison sentence on Sunday for her trade union activities, which include leading a strike.

As the new term begins, private housing bosses are licking their lips at the prospect of cashing in on students.

Parents, workers and students are organising a mass campaign against academies in Gloucestershire. Private firm Prospects Group is set to take over Whitcross School in Lydney and run it as an academy from September.

The Socialist Teachers Alliance (STA) held its annual general meeting last Saturday. There was serious discussion of the prospect of major campaigns and strikes in the coming months.

London bus workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike over Olympic pay—raising the prospect of a bus strike during the games themselves.

The political establishment—in Britain and across Europe—is filled with dread at the prospect of the single European currency project falling apart.

The prospect of a strike over pensions in June hangs in the balance.

There is a real prospect of the NUT teachers’ union joining other unions for a national pensions strike in late June. That was the unanimous view of members at a national meeting of the Socialist Teachers Alliance (STA) in London last Saturday.

David Cameron lost his temper in parliament on Monday, exposing to the world just how outraged he is at the prospect of being held to account in any way.

The prospect of an oil tanker drivers’ strike threw the establishment into a tailspin.

The robber barons of Europe have fallen out—but their rows are an expression of a much deeper crisis. They face the prospect of economic catastrophe.

The prospect of a massive strike by public sector workers in the autumn took another step forwards yesterday (Wednesday).