Leaders of the Unison union were delivered two shattering blows last week when the trade union certification officer ruled that a crackdown on two of the union’s best known left wingers broke the union’s own rules – and in one case even broke the law.
The Trade union certification officer found that Tony Staunton, a member of the Unison union’s south west regional council for more than a decade, was "unreasonably excluded" from being a candidate in the 2007 national executive elections.
More than a million people employed by local authorities could take on the government in the growing battle over public sector pay.
Workers from different public sector unions will come together on 9 June for a TUC lobby of parliament over pay.
The need for more united action to beat Gordon Brown’s pay freeze is clear to many.
Gordon Brown’s government is reacting to its growing unpopularity by increasing its shift to the right.
The national march against fascism and racism called for Saturday 21 June in London is building momentum.
The trial of the "Raytheon Nine" anti-war activists is set to start this week in Belfast, and last for up to six weeks.
A 24-year old US soldier has refused his deployment to Iraq.
The US military and its Iraqi allies have abandoned the siege of Sadr City, the poor Shia slum of Baghdad, after failing to disarm the Mehdi army – a resistance organisation led by rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Key amendments to the government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill – which include the biggest attacks on abortion rights for 18 years – were being debated as Socialist Worker went to press.
"Who would have thought that a Labour government would abolish the 10p tax rate, increase taxes for the least well off and cut tax for the rich? We need to make Gordon Brown listen."
