Last week Community Union members at Wybone factory, Barnsley stepped up their action in their fight to get a decent wage increase. They were out on strike all week. One picket said, "We really affected production this week. They’ve had managers working but they’re not very good at it."
The GMB, one of Britain’s largest unions, is to withdraw sponsorship from a third of the 108 Labour MPs it backs because they are not implementing union policies.
Anti-Nazi activists are mobilising across the country against the British National Party (BNP) after its gains in recent elections.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) conference was set to discuss its political fund as Socialist Worker went to press.
Campaigners up and down the country are mobilising for the national demonstration in London on Saturday 21 June against the fascist British National Party (BNP).
Economic pundits warned that ordinary working people face a severe drop in their standard of living following the latest "factory gate" inflation figures from the Office of National Statistics.
Some 640 tanker drivers in the Unite union are set to go on strike for four days from Friday of this week in support of a 13.2 percent pay demand.
"When I was arrested at first I thought it was a joke. Then I realised – I’m a Muslim, I had the Al Qaida training manual on my computer, I could be locked up and disappear into Belmarsh or anywhere."
"Trust me, as a minister and as a home secretary." That was the unconvincing plea from home secretary Jacqui Smith last week as she urged backbench Labour MPs to vote for laws to detain "terror" suspects for 42 days without them being charged.
Protesters demonstrated in Middlesbrough town centre last weekend against the government policy of deporting people to warzones such as Iraq, Afghanistan and DR Congo.
The number of children living in relative poverty rose by 100,000 to 3.9 million in the year 2006-7, according to figures released by the government this week.
War criminal George Bush is coming to Britain as part of his "farewell tour" of Europe. And he brings with him plans for a new war on Iran and demands for more sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq.
