NHS Notional Health Service - The great health and social care swindle An in-depth look at NHS, the state it is in and what we can do about it.
Derailed: how the trains are in deep crisis This article examines the current state of the railways, rail workers resistance and how we got there.
The London Coalition Against Poverty This article originally appeared in Direct Action No. 42, Spring 2008, the magazine of the Solidarity Federation, the British section of the…
Ladbrokes staff strike against pay offer Staff at a Ladbrokes betting call centre on Merseyside are staging a 24-hour walkout in a row over pay.
TV Times - 4 - 10 October 2008 This week's pick is a documentary expose of the appalling and impossible situation troops on active service are placed in.
Eleven London bus garages join strike action Unite members at a further eleven bus garages in London are set to join the 3,500 bus workers who have been taking strike action on Friday 10 and Wednesday 22 October.
The medicalisation of everyday life NHS doctor and science writer Ben Goldacre writes about bullshit medical research, bogus science reporting, the placebo effect, and everything else from postmodernism to evolutionary psychology.
Learning to live, teaching to fail This article first appeared in Direct Action No12, Autumn, 1999, the quarterly magazine of the Solidarity Federation analysing the formation of the modern school and arguing for a libertarian alternative.
Titan prisons: "consultation" ends, construction set to begin With the required political processes out of the way, the building of the 2,500 capacity jails is set to begin.
UCU members vote for industrial action at Nottingham Trent University University and College Union (UCU) members at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) have voted in favour of strike action on Tuesday 21 October following attacks on campus unions.
Conciliation staff in one hour stoppage over pay More than 700 members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) working for the conciliation service ACAS took part in a one hour strike…
230 Sheffield steel workers to lose jobs Finnish metals group Outokumpu Oyj said Friday it will close a stainless steel plant in Sheffield, England - laying off all 230 workers - because of oversupply. Its stock surged 14 percent.
