Campaigners gathered in London for the Right to Work campaign’s forum on austerity and resistance last Sunday.
Students across Britain are gearing up for a week of action against government plans for the marketisation and privatisation of education.
When private equity firms buy out public services job losses and bankruptcies follow fast, research by the GMB union shows.
The Tories are privatising schools in the name of improving education. But their rhetoric has fallen apart.
Workers at the Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) factory in Bootle, Merseyside, are continuing their fight against job cuts and a management lock-out.
Over 150 workers attended a rank and file electricians’ meeting in London last week.
The NUT, PCS, UCU and EIS unions could be part of a 750,000-strong strike on 28 March.
Anger was on display at the Unison union’s 200-strong higher education conference earlier this month.
A lively picket line at Ayrshire Central Hospital kicked off the Unison union’s continued campaign across Scotland against attacks on health workers’ pensions this Tuesday.
Hundreds of people protested at Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset last Saturday. The event marked the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
Some 200 people protested against alleged rapist and former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Cambridge last Friday (see right).
Some 200 people attended the Socialist Workers Party meeting in London to celebrate the socialist tradition of International Women’s Day on Thursday of last week.
