Civil servants back industrial action over pay A prolonged programme of industrial action, hitting civil and public services across the UK moved a step closer today, as PCS members backed…
Work to rule starts to bite at Criminal Records Bureau Industrial action by 450 workers at the Criminal Records Bureau in Liverpool is causing major…
General strike in Greece with central protest march in Athens A 24 hour general strike in Greece sees all public sector and large part of private sector closed as well as clashes between demonstrating strikers and riot police in Athens.
NHS workers balloting for industrial action Thousands of members of the Unite union working in the National Health Service are being asked if they will take action, including strike action…
Occupied schools in Greece face repression As the tide of secondary and high-school squats rises again across Greece, the state responds with repression
Argentina: poverty and the militarisation of society, 1990 An anti-authoritarian analysis of the dire situation faced by ordinary people in Argentina in 1990.
TV Times - 18 - 24 October 2008 This weeks pick is an investigation into the exploitation of vulnerable Indian devotees and naive Westerners in southern India by so-called "swamis" or god-men".
Residents clash with police in Greek refuse dump row Local resistance to open-refuse dump near Ioannina escalates to clashes after an army of 230 riot policemen charges barricades
Shack Fire Summit, Kennedy Road settlement, 22 September 2008 A statement by the Poor People's Alliance following the shack fire summit called by Abahlali baseMjondolo
Metronet climb down on activist victimisation Metronet have backed down from attempts to fire RMT militant Andy Littlechild
Protests in Belfast in support of women's right to choose The Alliance for Choice in Northern Ireland is heading up a campaign for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. On Wednesday 22nd there will be a vote on an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in Westminster to extend the Act to NI - 41 years after its introduction in the rest of the UK.
