The steering committee of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) had a tumultuous meeting last Saturday.
The student revolt and the fight against Tory cuts have created new political debates in every workplace, college and community.
The Tories blame ordinary people for their own poverty to justify benefit cuts. They paint a picture of parents as feckless scroungers who can’t be bothered to find a job and help their children.
The GMB union last month found that there are 1,359,282 unemployed claimants and just 521,729 job vacancies.
An official government report into plans to cut housing benefit says more than 930,000 households—over two million individuals— will be hit by the policy.
Remember Sir "Fred the Shred" Goodwin, the banker who brought the Royal Bank of Scotland to its knees?
Women will lose almost three times more than men from the cuts, according to gender equality campaign group, the Fawcett Society.
Workers at seven benefit processing sites are to strike for two days on 20 and 21 December against plans to turn them into call centres.
The result of the strike ballot to defend hundreds of jobs at the Passport Office in Newport and interview offices around Britain was due on Wednesday of this week.
Around 270,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union began balloting this week to reject the government’s attacks on their redundancy pay.
The proposed transfer of Wycombe District Council’s council homes to a private company has been stalled.
Firefighters in London are voting on a deal to end their dispute over shifts. Socialist Worker is calling for a "no" vote on both options.
