More than 250 activists from trade unions and the Labour left gathered in central London last Saturday for the annual conference of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC).
New Labour's plans to build more houses using the private sector lie in ruins. Plans for more than 68,000 homes have been shelved so far this year.
"We're not just fighting for our jobs and pensions, but for everyone who works in the ports.
Health service privatisation can be beaten is the message that campaigners in north London want to send out after beating an attempt to build a polyclinic in Camden, which could have been privately-run.
Around 160 car component workers at the Federal Mogul plant in Coventry walked out on strike on Monday of this week over attempts to make them work longer for no extra pay.
Around 100,000 health workers are set to strike against a derisory three-year pay offer after members of the Unite union voted for industrial action.
Electricians at Fiddler's Ferry power station in Cheshire are on unofficial strike against lay-offs.
Around 500 postal workers and their supporters marched in Bletchley on Saturday to protest at the announced closure of Milton Keynes mail centre.
Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron have been bickering about tax cuts in the run-up to Monday's pre-budget report. Brown says he plans a "temporary and affordable fiscal stimulus" to cushion the blows of recession.
Some of the lowest paid workers at the University of Sussex are fighting an attack on their pensions that would see them paying more and retiring later—but receiving a lower – value pension in return.
Poor people pay too much tax, rich people pay too little, and really rich people and companies pay hardly any tax at all.
Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, admitted last week that Britain is probably now in recession. It joins a long list of economies which are now experiencing a downturn, including the US, Japan and the European Union.
