The dispute at First Aberdeen has come to an end after workers voted to accept the latest pay offer from the company.
Some 350 defiant trade unionists, socialists and people from the community descended on Mansion House in Doncaster last Saturday in support of suspended Unison union convenor Jim Board.
The all-out indefinite strike by over 500 hundred refuse collectors and street cleaners in Leeds has entered its second week. Many depots had large picket lines with some agency workers being persuaded to turn back.
Striking workers who are fighting for jobs and education at Tower Hamlets College in east London are growing more determined by the day – and their fantastic action has forced management to backtrack.
The militancy of the strike is inspiring workers and activists around the country and support is pouring in.
An inquiry into MG Rover has revealed that the so-called "Phoenix Four" who bought the company for just £10 shared up to £42 million in the run-up to the firm’s bankruptcy in 2005.
Teachers in five schools in Tamworth, Staffordshire, were set to strike on Wednesday of this week in protest at plans to introduce an academy and a privately-run sixth form in the town.
New Labour’s academy programme has lurched into a new crisis with news that a £30 million academy school in Sheffield will be placed in special measures following an Ofsted inspection.
New figures on pensions and pay show that Britain’s top bosses are not sharing the pain of the recession. Ordinary people have seen a swathe of attacks on their pay and pensions.
Yasmin, from Southwark, south London, is an unemployed worker. She spoke to Socialist Worker about why she is planning to protest against Labour.
The rage against Labour is set to explode on Sunday 27 September as thousands march on the party’s conference in Brighton.
Thousands of activists across Britain are to hold a day of action in support of the Vestas wind turbine workers on Thursday of this week.
