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More than 200 health workers, trade unionists, service users and MPs packed into a room in the House of Commons yesterday to show their support for Karen Reissmann, the Manchester psychiatric nurse and leading union member who was sacked for speaking out against cuts and privatisation

On Tuesday 20 May the first vote on abortion law in 18 years will take place in the House of Commons

Around 300 people rallied at short notice outside City Hall in London on Tuesday evening to protest against the fascist British National Party (BNP) grabbing a seat on the London assembly in last week’s elections

Two of the musicians who played at the recent Love Music Hate Racism (LHMR) carnival attended the Tuesday evening protest against the BNP held outside London’s City Hall

Gordon Brown humiliated at polls, as millions are bitter over war and inequality

Workers at Fujitsu’s Birmingham site are balloting for action ballot over the company’s plan to export production to Texas

Some 15,000 people participated in the May Day demonstration in Seoul, the capital of South Korea

A demonstration in support of sacked print workers took place last Saturday in Frome in Somerset

Thousands of people celebrated International Workers’ Day with marches taking place in towns and cities across the country

Peter Hallward spoke to Socialist Worker’s Anindya Bhattacharyya about oppression, food riots and the growing struggle against neoliberalism

Bolivia is at a crossroads once again

A major debate on abortion will take place in the House of Commons on Monday 12 May, writes Farah Reza

New Labour’s plans for airport expansion at Heathrow are part of its commitment to the market, writes Elaine Graham-Leigh

Regeneration has become a byword for New Labour’s disregard for democracy and slavish devotion to business, writes Michael Rosen

This week’s elections saw the crisis-ridden government battered – losing the London mayor to Tory Boris Johnson and polling Labour’s worst results in 40 years in council elections across England and Wales

Millions of people across Britain will be shocked and horrified by the news that the fascist British National Party (BNP) has managed to grab an assembly seat in London – one of the most multiracial and diverse cities of the world

The left’s ability to make an impact in the London elections was hampered by the closely fought battle between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone

Local council elections across much of England and Wales yesterday saw Labour’s worst electoral results for 40 years

Election results of the Thursday 1 May election

Results for constituency elections to the London Assembly from the Thursday 1 May 2008 election

For the elections of Thursday 1 May 2008

Hundreds of thousands of workers across the world took part in celebrations and protests to mark International Workers’ Day on Thursday

Results for the Left List and candidates the Left List is supporting in the London mayoral, London Assembly elections and English and Welsh Council elections held on 1 May 2008

Billionaires raid pensions while raking in profits

Some 100,000 people of all ages and backgrounds delivered a powerful message against fascism by joining the hugely successful Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) carnival last Sunday

Over 400,000 public sector workers strike, march and protest

The race for the US presidency reflects a deeper crisis facing the two main parties in the world's most powerful country, writes Abbie Bakan

Ken Olende enjoys a new book on David Low and his anti-fascist cartoons

German activist Volkhard Mosler looks at the movement in West Germany and the politics of its leader Rudi Dutschke

Around 100,000 people from across London and far beyond attended the Love Music, Hate Racism carnival in Victoria Park, east London, today

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The fightback started today

Teachers in the NUT union held well attended strike rallies up and down the country today as part of their campaign against Gordon Brown's public sector wage freeze

Across London schools and colleges shut down along side Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) sites

There is far less traffic on the roads of Birmingham today as the city has essentially shut down

Striking teachers were marching through Manchester today as hundreds of schools closed across the region

Across the region there were solid strikes including a number of colleges

In Sussex teachers report successful picketing in the Burgess Hill/Haywards Heath area of West Sussex closed all four local schools

Workers in the Unite union at the charity Shelter were striking around the country on Thursday as part of a 48 hour strike against longer hours and low pay

Thursday 24 April 450,000 strike | Thursday 1 May Vote Left List

Birmingham bands UB40 and Steel Pulse joined Yaz Alexander at a Love Music Hate Racism press conference on Friday of last week

Weyman Bennett of Unite Against Fascism on the importance of the carnival and the coming election in isolating the fascists

Uniting under the banner of “Save Our Livelihood”, around 7,000 British Chinese, Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Turkish catering employers, workers and supporters gathered in Trafalgar Square in central London last Sunday to protest against Britain’s draconian immigration rules

Mushtuq Husain, writes from Dhaka, on the crisis seeping across the country

Rocketing price rises are threatening to plunge tens of millions around the world into hunger and food insecurity

The ideas of Karl Marx are a good place to start if we want to provide an alternative to capitalism and change the world, writes Alex Callinicos

Jim Threapleton spoke to Simon Basketter about his new film