IBM is one of the latest companies looking to close its final salary pension scheme to existing members.
Saturday 25 July- All London delivery offices except Rathbone Place and Mount Pleasant deliveriesTuesday 28 July- East London Mail Centre, Mount Pleasant mail centre, Mount Pleasant delivery centre.Wednesday 29 July- Princess Royal distribution centre, Thurrock distribution centreThursday 30, Friday 31 July, Saturday 1 August- rolling selective action in London delivery officesFriday 31 July- Rathbone Place
The growing anger against the Labour government’s handling of the recession is building momentum for protests at the Labour Party conference on 27 September.
A whole town united last Saturday in a fight for jobs. Around 5,000 people marched through Redcar in the north east of England in protest at Corus’s threat to close their steel plant.
"If you shut Johnnie Walker’s you might as well close the shutters in every shop in Kilmarnock."
Thousands of students, pensioners, campaigners, unemployed people and others will join the march on the Labour Party conference in Brighton on Sunday 27 September.
A motley collection of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, white supremacists and admirers of Adolf Hitler will gather for their annual hate-fest in the Derbyshire village of Codnor at the Red, White and Blue festival on Saturday 15 August.
More than 400 anti-fascist activists from around Britain gathered in Manchester last weekend for a conference organised by Unite Against Fascism (UAF).
Workers at the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have joined the fight against ordinary people being made to suffer for the recession.
Vestas proudly states that, "With a 20 percent market share, and 38,000 wind turbines installed, Vestas is the world’s leading supplier of wind power solutions."
The occupation at Vestas is just the latest in the wave of unofficial and militant actions that workers have taken in response to attacks on their jobs, terms and conditions.
Jonathan Neale of the Campaign Against Climate Change spoke to Socialist Worker about the importance of the fight at Vestas
