The CWU postal workers’ union announced this week that it will resume strikes at Royal Mail after management walked out of talks aimed to settle the dispute over pay. It is now likely that the union will call action before the end of September.
Anti-war school students held a vibrant and successful street fair in Edinburgh last Saturday.
The strike by tube workers over jobs and pensions in London last week brought the capital to a near standstill, and forced London Underground bosses to back down.
Despite the clear gains made by the RMT in negotiations, management, the media and Ken Livingstone all claimed that the union accepted the same deal that was on the table a week earlier.
Israel repeatedly lied during its war on Lebanon last summer to justify airstrikes on civilians, their homes and their neighbourhoods. That is the conclusion of a year-long investigation by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) group.
Banner making in Cambridge Cambridge Stop the War group got a great response to its banner making session in the city centre last Saturday.
Over 800 rail workers in the RMT union at One railway are set to strike on Saturday of this week and Monday of next week, in support of a guard sacked following an incident with a violent and abusive passenger.
Around 120 members of the PCS union at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in London were set to strike on Wednesday of this week over restructuring.
The national executive of the PCS union agreed last week to hold a consultative ballot of 270,000 members on whether to stage further strikes over attacks on services, privatisation, job cuts and pay.
Members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have overwhelmingly rejected a below-inflation pay offer.
Over 30 delegates attended the Student Respect organising meeting last Sunday to discuss and debate our campaigns in the coming term.
