Love Music Hate Racism and Unite Against Fascism (UAF) were invited to this year’s World Village Festival in Southmead, Bristol.
The government looks set to slash subsidies to the bus industry, leading to severe cuts in services and jobs.
The Unite union has launched a financial appeal for sacked London Sovereign buses union convenor, Abdul Omer.
London firefighters are set to ballot for industrial action if bosses carry out their threat to start the process of sacking the entire workforce.
The lecturers’ UCU union is preparing to ballot all of its members in higher education (HE) for strikes.
The threat of strike action by workers on the Docklands Light Railway system in east London has won an improved offer from management.
The ballot of thousands of RMT and TSSA union members on London Underground against major job cuts is continuing.
The three main unions representing workers at the BBC will hold national strike ballots of their members next month over pensions.
Seventy seven tube drivers struck on Wednesday of last week over the unfair dismissal of a driver at Rickmansworth, north west London. The strike by Aslef union members hit services on the Metropolitan Line.
Teachers at Farnley Park Mathematics and Computing College in Leeds, West Yorkshire, struck on Wednesday of last week over bullying. The strike involved members of all three unions at the school – the NUT, NASUWT and ATL.
BARAC is a coalition of black public and voluntary sector workers, trade unionists, community organisations, service users and concerned individuals. It aims to create a critical mass of opposition to the intended government cuts to services and jobs.
Kirklees council, West Yorkshire, has voted to go ahead with its assault on jobs, conditions and services.