Socialist Worker will be providing news and pictures of the protest at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham today (see below). Please check regularly for the latest from our team of reporters and photographers.
A hundred thousand workers from across Europe surged through Brussels as part of the European TUC day of action against austerity.
More than 60 London ambulance workers in the GMB union protested this morning outside a meeting of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust. They are fighting to stop privatisation and have voted by over 95 percent to take strike action.
Socialist Worker last week argued that we need a general strike to fight the Tory cuts.
Workers at Tyneside Safety Glass staged a very successful week-long strike at the firm’s two factories in the Team Valley trading estate in Gateshead last week.
Coca-Cola workers in Edmonton, north London, struck again on Wednesday and Thursday of last week in their fight for a decent pay rise.
Bus workers at Stagecoach Merseyside in Liverpool were set to strike on Friday of this week after rejecting a new pay offer that was worse than the previous deal.
UCU union members are angry at a recent decision by the union’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) to postpone a ballot on jobs and pay.
Lecturers at Richmond College in West London are set to ballot for industrial action over job cuts.
The CLR James Library in east London, named after the late, great Trinidadian Marxist historian CLR James, is under threat.
