NUT conference last weekend overwhelmingly voted to affiliate to the Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Steve Sinnott, the general secretary of the NUT, is calling for joint action over pay following the pay motion vote at last weekend’s conference – including at the upcoming May Day events.
The NUT teachers’ union conference last weekend showed the anger at Gordon Brown’s public sector pay freeze, and the desire for unity to break it.
It was New Labour's day of shame this week. The government gave in to pressure and handed £500 million to some of the greediest and richest people in Britain. Businessmen, bankers and speculators were horrified when their Railtrack shares nosedived last year. They believed their bets in the stock market casino should be a one-way ticket to wealth. These people were gleeful when the Tories flogged Railtrack off for a quarter of its value.
Post Office bosses, backed by New Labour, have launched a ferocious attack on Post Office jobs. The 15,000 job cuts announced on Monday are the first round of a plan that will eventually slash 40,000 jobs. That's a fifth of the workforce. This is "just the start, not the end", said Post Office chairman Allan Leighton. Parcelforce will be hit hardest first of all. Some 6,700 jobs are to go on top of "natural wastage".
On Wednesday of last week campaigners held lobbies in seven cities around Britain against deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
With just a month to go until council and regional elections on Thursday 3 May, campaigners for left wing alternative parties have been out in force.
Solidarity, Scotland’s Socialist Movement, is campaigning hard for the 3 May elections for the Scottish parliament.
In a 1999 speech Tony Blair declared, "Our historic aim will be for ours to be the first generation to end child poverty forever, and it will take a generation. It is a 20 year mission, but I believe it can be done."
Over 1,000 construction workers walked off their jobs on Wednesday of last week to protest against sub-contracting and agency work undermining their employment rights.
Bristol home care workers protest against privatisation Home care workers in Bristol protested on Tuesday of last week against the council’s plans to privatise their service
The prospect of the first mass national industrial action in the NHS for almost 20 years took a big step forward last week as the Unison union agreed to ballot its members over pay.
