Remploy workers to strike Workers at 28 factories due to be closed by Remploy are being balloted for strike action.
Class, Self, Culture, by Beverley Skeggs, Routledge, 2004. Book review Review that finds this to be an important advance on Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘reflexive sociology’.
Rose Coloured Spectacles (2006). Film review Review discussing treatments of politics in mainstream cinema.
Occupation of Ledco plant ends Workers at the Ledco tool and die plant in Kitchener, Ontario ended a three day occupation after a judge ruled it illegal.
1998: Danish private sector strike A short history of the massive private sector strike that gripped Denmark for 10 days in 1998. Although ending after negotiations between the…
Strikes and protests in China Bus drivers have been on strike, while the death of a blogger prompted protests and a taxi drivers protest in Hubei proviince.
Air traffic controllers on unofficial overtime ban Thirty two flights were delayed at Dublin airport last night due to an unofficial overtime ban by air traffic controllers.
TV Times - 26 January - 1 February 2008 This weeks pick explores the apathy and corruption inherent in the response to the Sudanese genocide by the US government.
The Road to Guantanamo, dirs. Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, Channel 4, 9th March 2006. Television review Review of a docudramatic critique of the War on Terror
Paradise Now, dir. Hany Abu-Assad, 2006. Film review Reviews of controversial Oscar nominee for best foreign film
