Around 150 support workers struck for three days at One Housing Group sites across London last week against severe cuts to their wages.
Around 670 construction workers downed tools unofficially at Runcorn Thermal Power Station on Friday of last week.
Pay, pensions and privatisation could form the basis for a national strike in Royal Mail, according to CWU union activists.
The CWU union has withdrawn a strike ballot after reaching a deal over plans to outsource Telefonica O2 to Capita.
Some 200 people turned up at Barnsley Magistrates Court last week after being summonsed for not paying council tax.
Civil service workers in the PCS union are set to protest in workplaces around Britain on Thursday of this week. This will take the form of lunchtime rallies and tours of different workplaces.
Tory benefit cuts minister Lord Freud threw down a gauntlet to council leaders last week.
Tenants in Manchester are demanding the right to speak at the Chartered Institute of Housing in the city this week.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden was on the run as Socialist Worker went to press.
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A homemade bomb went off outside the Aisha Mosque and Islamic Centre in Walsall in the West Midlands on Friday of last week.
