Local residents in the Somers Town area of Camden, London are campaigning against the selling off of public land.
Resistance to Tesco has united people in Cambridge.
Respect councillors in Tower Hamlets, east London, are fighting an attempt by a local housing association to snap up some of the few remaining council houses in Poplar.
Preston Respect members were central to organising a successful meeting of Preston Fighting Unions last week.
Around 50 students representing university and student groups from around England and Wales attended the Student Respect conference last Sunday.
Liverpool’s rubbish strike Refuse workers in Liverpool who work for the Veolia company have voted to strike.
Traffic wardens and support staff at NCP in Brighton & Hove voted against management’s Scrooge-like decision to cancel their Christmas bonus and party.
Workers at BAA’s seven airports including Heathrow, Gatwick and Glasgow are balloting for strike action in opposition to the company’s plans to close the final average salary pension scheme to new starters.
Up to 10,000 workers in the NUJ, Bectu and Unite unions at the BBC are balloting for strike action against devastating compulsory redundancies. The ballot closes in the second week of January.
This week saw the launch of the "our colleges, our communities, our union" campaign in the UCU lecturers union, to fight for decent pay for further and adult education lecturers in preparation of a ballot for industrial action.
Around 300 parents, teachers and trade unionists demonstrated on Saturday of last week in Manchester against the academies programme.
Teachers in the NUT union are likely to ballot for action over pay in January, and not December, as originally planned.
