The Irish government was pushing through its latest austerity budget on Tuesday of this week.
The ruling class response to the continued release of diplomatic emails by Wikileaks is telling.
We need to bring down this government—raising student fees to £9,000 a year and abolishing the Education Maintenance Allowance was never "inevitable", it was a political choice by David Cameron and Nick Clegg.
More than 90 percent of Sefton council workers have voted for industrial action in response to massive job cuts, attacks on conditions and the culling of public services.
A work to rule by hundreds of Birmingham refuse workers has been postponed for two weeks for talks between the unions and the council.
An angry 250-strong meeting of the Islington council workers’ Unison union last week called for action over cuts.
We have seen another huge outpouring of student anger onto the streets of Britain this week.
Activists in the RMT and TSSA unions are continuing to push for an escalation of strikes on London Underground.
Robert Stephenson died suddenly at home last week. He joined the SWP in the 1970s while at Swansea university and then trained to be a teacher at Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside. He organised an occupation of Kendal council over cuts in 1976.
A deal has been brokered between BBC management and representatives of the Bectu and NUJ unions at the corporation.
Journalists at the Newsquest-owned Southern Daily Echo in Southampton and The Argus in Brighton struck on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
Lecturers across Britain were backing mass protests this Thursday—and some called for walkouts.
