Hundreds rallied at the Visteon car components factory in Enfield, north London, this morning in support of workers who have been occupying the site since being sacked on Wednesday.
Parents of children at Wynford and St Gregory's primary schools in Glasgow have occupied the school buildings to protest over the threatened closure of the schools.
Defend Council Housing (DCH) activists have occupied a flat in Streatham, south London, in protest at Lambeth council’s policy of selling off its housing stock despite the chronic shortage of accommodation in the borough.
Questions are being raised about the police tactics being used in London against G20 demonstrators in the wake of the death of a man caught up in the protest.
Up to 100 sacked workers from Visteon in Basildon, Essex, protested outside the Visteon Customer and Technology Centre (VCTC) this morning.
Some 5,000 people joined the anti-war demonstration in central London on Wednesday to call for troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom for Palestine, and an end to nuclear weapons.
Thousands of anti-capitalist and anti-war protesters converged on London's City financial district today to demonstrate ahead of the G20 summit that starts tomorrow.
Gordon Brown's plans for a "global new deal" to save the world economy came badly unstuck long before this week's summit of G20 world leaders.
The leadership of the Irish trade unions has called off the general strike that was set for Monday of this week.
Some of the festering sectarianism that still dominates Northern Ireland came to the fore last weekend with more than a dozen racist attacks on migrants' homes in Belfast.
Battle lines are being drawn at the Olympic construction site in east London. A deal between the TUC and the Olympic Development Authority (ODA) claiming to give unions influence in the building of the Olympics was announced last week.
With safety of paramount importance, the battle to build effective union organisation in the offshore industry can be a matter of life and death. Jake Molloy, Neil Rothnie and Mike McCaig of OILC, the energy branch of the RMT union, spoke to Socialist Worker about the challenge.
