TV Times - 5 - 11 April 2008 This weeks pick looks at the possible causes of the Virginia Tech massacre, the biggest peacetime shooting incident in US history.
Direct action gets the goods again, this time in London An underpaying, exploitative restuarant boss in London was forced to pay a foreign kitchen porter his owed wages and also holiday pay when a picket arrived outside his restaurant, backed up by threats of legal action.
UK teachers set for first national strike in 21 years Members of the National Union of Teachers are set to take part in the first national teachers strike in 21 years in response to the government's failure to keep pay-rises in-line with the rate of inflation.
RMT and TSSA vote for joint strike action RMT station staff and train operator members voted Thursday by a margin of five to one for strike action in defence of safety on the London…
TV Times - 29 March - 4 April 2008 This week's highlight is an undercover report into the current Tibetan situation.
TV Times - 22 - 28 March 2008 In a week traditionally quiet for political programming, this week's highlight is the biographical drama Silkwood, based on the true story of a…
Two-day DWP strike ends Thousands of Job Centre and benefit office staff carried out a 48-hour strike this week against a new three-year pay deal.
Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism - E. P. Thompson Thompson brilliantly explores the changing relationship to time in class society, describing the…
Wapping print works to close The Wapping print works which was notoriously used to break the print workers' organisation is to close, with two-thirds of staff set to lose their jobs.
Taking Liberties, written and directed by Chris Atkins, 2007. Film review - Tom Jennings Reviews this documentary lambasting Labour's assault on freedom.
TV Times - 15 - 21 March 2008 This week's highlight asks if the input and involvement of actors, musicians and artists in the revolutionary activities of 1968 helped to change the course of Western society in any way.
Interview: Nottingham library assistant speaks out on management bullying Interview with a Nottingham library worker about the imposition of new uniforms and management bullying.