The fascist British National Party (BNP) is on the march again – but we can build a mass movement to stop them in their tracks. That was the message last weekend coming from Rotherham and Stoke-on-Trent, two key targets for the BNP Nazis.
The BNP plans to hold a fascist rally in the centre of Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday of next week to whip up race hatred against Muslims.
Yunus and Tony defend ruling Campaigners for Yunus Bakhsh were angered to hear that Unison is stepping up its attack on him. Yunus was sacked from his job as a nurse for his union activities and is now facing disciplinary action by his own Unison union.
Parents and teachers in Sheffield demanding high quality state education are preparing for a massive no campaign in a ground-breaking ballot on whether a local school is turned into an academy.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) conducts surveillance of its staff, who live in a culture of fear, according to Tony Goode who was dismissed by the company after speaking to journalists.
Around 25 cleaners, including workers from Eurostar and London Underground who have struck over pay in recent weeks, joined other activists at a meeting in central London last week to discuss ongoing disputes, recent victories and future strategies.
Further education lecturers in the UCU union have shown that striking works. We were initially offered a 2.5 percent pay deal. But after our members took strike action, management upped this to 3.2 percent from October this year.
Barnsley college Over 120 members of the UCU union at Barnsley college joined a lunchtime protest on Wednesday of last week to demand the immediate reinstatement of Bob Willerton, a UCU rep who was sacked the day before.
Manchester will be a key rallying point against war and free market policies next weekend.
Journalists at Sheffield Newspapers were due to walk out on Wednesday of this week in protest at job losses.
The prospect of cuts to vital services in hospitals up and down the country remerged last week as an "independent" panel backed health authority plans to downgrade services at two hospitals.
The Unite union, which represents over 100,000 NHS workers, is set to continue the fight for decent pay in the health service.
