The Tories’ assault on jobs and public services has changed the political situation. Anti-cuts groups are appearing everywhere, many of them involving or being led by Labour Party members, councillors and MPs.
Up to 2,000 workers at Glasgow Life (previously Glasgow Culture and Sport) struck again this Monday in the latest phase of their battle over pay and conditions.
The year-long firefighters’ dispute in Essex has ended – but with a bad deal.
London firefighters are seething after their boss threatened to sack them all – on his blog.
The PCS civil service workers’ union is to launch a campaign in defence of jobs, pay and public services.
Up to 10,000 people came together for the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs’ festival in Dorset last weekend.
Lecturers who work in prisons have voted for industrial action in protest at attacks on their pay and conditions.
The NUT teachers’ union unanimously passed a motion to fight public spending cuts at its national executive meeting on Thursday of last week.
Teachers at St Aloysius school in Islington escalated their fight for a school fit to teach and learn in with a two-day strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
The fascist British National Party (BNP) branch in Barking, east London, is in crisis.
The English Defence League’s (EDL) hopes for a morale boosting success in Dudley were sorely disappointed last Saturday.
More than 80 protesters blocked the entrance to the offices of the Daily Express and Daily Star newspapers in London on Thursday of last week.
