Unite union activists representing bus workers across London met on Friday of last week for a crucial discussion on how to take their pay campaign forward.
One effect of the economic crisis is that many people are becoming interested in alternatives to capitalism—and are engaging with socialist ideas about how to transform the system.
As Royal Mail prepared to announce profits of over £177 million, around 500 postal workers and supporters marched in Crewe last Saturday to demand the local mail centre is kept open.
There are just a few days of voting left in the NUT teachers’ union’s ballot for strike action over pay.
The New Labour government has brought in changes to disability benefits this week that will make it even harder for sick and disabled people to claim benefits.
Monday 10 November will see a national strike by around 270,000 civil service workers in the PCS union. This will be the latest stage in the battle of public sector workers against Gordon Brown’s pay curbs.
The London region of the UCU education union initiated a meeting last week to discuss organising a joint trade union response to the recession.
Following the recent successful London-wide rally hosted by the People Before Profit Charter, supporters in Hackney, east London, along with Turkish and Kurdish activists, called an organising meeting for the charter.
People Before Profit Charter supporters in Southend held a successful "freeze-in" last Saturday highlighting the plight of pensioners and calling for a windfall tax on energy companies.
The plummeting stock markets are having a devastating effect on the pensions of working people.
Can public spending solve the crisis? Many economists and politicians – Gordon Brown included – are calling for major public spending projects to stave off the worst effects of the recession. This is sometimes dubbed a "Keynesian" solution.
Until A few weeks ago, supporters of free market capitalism were confident enough to proclaim that their system was the only way that the world could be organised. Now their certainties have vanished.
