A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.

The teachers were on the way home from a general meeting that had been held in the state capital Ziguinchor when they were attacked by police.

A major theme this week is analysis of countries in the East with documentaries on the Middle East, China and Kosovo/Serbia.

Junior doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) are planning to take industrial action today.

Labor union ver.di says that operations at Deutschen Telekom have been severely hampered after one week of strike.

For the second day in a row, staff members in the engineering department at the Princess Margaret Hospital called in sick yesterday in protest at…

Nearly 80 percent of the staff of the Princess Margaret Hospital's engineering department called in sick yesterday to protest a delay in their…

Report from Egyptian blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy on a sit in of over 150, mostly female garment workers at the Mansoura-España Garments Company.

Instead of being increased by 10% as of October 1 as scheduled, the monthly minimum wage is expected to increase by 20% as of early 2008.

1981 article about a US Government housing policy - conceived in the aftermath of the 1960s ghetto riots - arguing that the policy was aimed at…