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.
Mexico: Morelos teachers' strike continues with national support Schoolteachers in the state of Morelos today complete their 48th day of an indefinite strike against proposed a educational reform being forced through by their union leader which would remove their job security. Yesterday their march was joined by other teachers from around the country.
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.
CNT and the new labour law reform in France An article from CNT-F about the 2008 French labor law reforms.
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.
Building workers on strike in Trinidad Contract workers hired for the construction of the continuous catalytic reactor (CCR) and the alti-acid plants at Petrotrin, Pointe-a-Pierre, yesterday downed tools for the second time in three days.
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.
100,000 Bollywood workers on strike Workers in India's film industry have been the latest to join in the recent strike wave spreading the country.
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.
The death of the "Israel lobby?" Will the news that the US vetoed Israeli plans to strike Iran's nuclear infrastructure put to bed the myth of the "Israel lobby"? I'd like to…