Over 2,000 people took to the streets of Athens on Saturday 20 December against the Greek state’s attacks on migrants. The march was a sign of the deepening anger in the country against the right wing New Democracy government.
Up to 50,000 postal workers jobs were put at risk yesterday after the unelected Secretary of State for Business Lord Peter Mandelson announced that he plans to sell off parts of the Royal Mail.
Mass protests and strikes are continuing in Greece, two weeks after the police killing of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. The mass movement that has taken to the streets has intensified the pressure on the right wing New Democracy government. Alexandros’s killing has become a focus for all the general discontent in society.
An emergency security court in Egypt has jailed 22 textile workers and their supporters for their role in the uprising in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla al-Kubra. A further 27 were acquitted.
Some 120 mostly Asian women workers mounted a mass picket this morning at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals factory in north west London on the first of three strike days over pay.
The new Defend Council Housing (DCH) newspaper will be available soon.
Council tenants in Winchester, southern England, are battling a major attack on council housing.
Around 300 workers and service users demonstrated outside Wallasey Town Hall in the Wirral, Merseyside, on Wednesday of last week against a drastic series of closures being proposed by the council.
Tony Benn addressed a rally in Chesterfield last Saturday – for the first time since he stopped being the local MP in 2001.
Workers who took over and occupied their Chicago factory have won a startling victory.
Strike looming at Newcastle airport Around 120 baggage handlers, ramp staff and aircraft loaders at Newcastle Airport have voted almost unanimously in favour of strike action to defend jobs.
