The first policy-making conference of Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement took place in Glasgow last weekend.
The 70th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s anti-war painting Guernica provided the centrepiece for a Sheffield Stop the War Coalition event. It was attended by more than 70 people on Friday of last week and was called to mark the cost of war over the remembrance weekend.
A mass meeting of Wrexham workers facing the end of their final salary pension scheme pledged to fight the proposals last week.
Workers in the GMB union at Swansea council began a strike ballot this week over a single status pay deal.
Michael Gavan’s Unison union branch in Newham, east London, is continuing to fight against his victimisation and suspension from work.
The Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), which is affiliated to the TUC, has pledged its support to the 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America who have been on strike since last week.
Train drivers in the Aslef union working for Silverlink struck for the third time on Friday of last week in defence of their pension rights.
Around 600 people came to a public meeting organised by the Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) in central London last week. George Monbiot, John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK, Phil Thornhill of CACC and an organiser of August’s Climate Camp all spoke at the meeting.
Workers at Cadbury’s four chocolate factory sites have voted in favour of holding a ballot on strike action.
Over 80,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are being balloted to strike over the threatened imposition of a below inflation pay offer.
The management of Remploy is proposing to close 28 factories employing 1,600 disabled workers.
It’s often in our pockets that we connect most directly to the politics of food. But the struggle for food extends across a broader canvas, and it’s one that affects workers intimately. The production of food, for instance, is a battlefield of exploitation and resistance.
