Unite against Fascism (UAF) has called a counter‑protest at a planned English Defence League (EDL) demonstration at Downing Street on Saturday 8 October.
Electricians’ protests against building bosses’ attacks on wages are escalating in scale and militancy.
Unite’s London construction branch has unanimously passed a motion on the dispute.
Journalists in Warrington have called a 48-hour strike against Newsquest bosses’ attacks on their jobs and pay.
Bosses at Wyndeham Impact printers in Basingstoke have said they will shut the factory—because they want even larger profits.
Campaigners have vowed to fight until the very last moment to stop the Tory health and social care bill.
Campaigners in Stroud, Gloucestershire, are threatening legal action to stop the transfer of NHS services to an unaccountable "community interest company".
NHS privatisation fears have also been raised in Surrey.
At times it can seem as if everyone is against strikes. The main political parties typically attack strikers for being "irresponsible". And even trade union leaders who are leading strikes take care to stress that "no one wants to strike".
Union leaders are giving workers the go-ahead to use "any means necessary" to win a massive strike vote in the battle for public sector pensions.
Ed Miliband used his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference on Tuesday to justify the anti-union laws and the sell-off of council housing.
The NHS will be forced to slash vital hospital services, including accident & emergency and maternity units—and that’s according to one of its top bosses.
