Workers at the mail centre in Truro in Cornwall walked out yesterday as they had not been paid. Every December, Royal Mail takes on casual workers to help sort the Christmas mail. These are typically students or the long-term unemployed. Workers in Truro complained to management when they were not paid on time at the end of last week.
Protests on construction sites across Britain again turned into mass stay-aways today (Wednesday).
Supporters and friends of Shaker Aamer held a vigil outside Downing Street last Saturday. He is the last British resident to be held in Guantanamo Bay, where he has been imprisoned for nearly ten years.
Klaxons boomed across the frosty Essex morning last Friday, as lorry drivers showed their solidarity with workers picketing the Unilever plant in Purfleet.
Unilever’s miserly management has decided to punish workers for taking part in the strike.
Drivers and warehouse workers at retail giant Argos struck over pensions on Thursday of last week in Motherwell, near Glasgow.
There is a debate across the trade unions that joined the magnificent strike on 30 November about where the struggle goes next.
Unions and health workers have rejected the latest Tory attempts to rob their pensions.
Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal no longer faces the death penalty after 30 years on death row.
The use of Britain’s veto at the European Union (EU) summit last week has triggered a huge row within the ruling class.
Fewer than one in ten people support the government’s cuts, according to the 28th annual British Social Attitudes Survey published in last week.
