The RMT transport union began a strike ballot of its 10,000 members on London Underground and Transport for London this week over pay and job cuts.
Around 1,500 RMT transport union members at National Express East Anglia and First Capital Connect are set to strike on Monday of next week over job losses.
Thousands of journalists in the BBC are poised for strike action after workers voted for two one-day strikes against attacks on jobs and conditions.
With millions of jobs and homes under threat and the planet on the brink of environmental catastrophe, the urgent need for global action over the economy could not be clearer.
Some 150 people marched through Wigan against job cuts and privatisation last Saturday.
The RMT transport union has initiated a challenge in June’s European elections, to oppose the dominant neoliberal policies of the European Union.
High profile union activist Yunus Bakhsh is this week fighting for reinstatement to his job as a psychiatric nurse.
Striking Community Service Supervisors in Glasgow are now in their 12th week of action. Last week 100 Glasgow City Unison union members, local students and school closure protesters joined the supervisors to lobby Glasgow City Chambers.
There is a new sense of urgency in the battle to save Royal Mail from privatisation and to stop tens of thousands of job cuts.
The G20 will do little to help Africa escape the cycle of debt and misery, according to studies by leading NGOs and aid agencies working in the continent.
When London taxi driver John Worboys was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting his passengers, it emerged that many women had been reporting attacks for almost seven years, only to have their claims dismissed by the police as "no crime".
Evidence is mounting of the scale of Israel’s war crimes against the people of Gaza during its recent offensive.
