Respect is urging its supporters to throw themselves into the campaign to re-elect Michael Lavalette as a councillor in Preston.
‘Solidarity activists have been delivering pre-election bulletins to houses across Scotland over the last few weeks. Tens of thousands have been delivered so far.
The campaign to defend Yunus Bakhsh, a leading Unison union activist and fighter for the NHS, from victimisation by both his management and his trade union gathered pace this week.
There is general agreement among lecturers that while many people were happy at the number of UCU Left supporters elected to the executive, the numbers voting were pitifully low.
Amicus members at Fujitsu in Manchester continue their long-running battle to defend union recognition and agreements on redundancy, redeployment and pay.
Over 2,000 Southampton council workers struck for 24 hours on Tuesday. The strike was called in protest at the council’s proposal to transfer over 700 jobs to private company Capita.
Tuesday 1 May is set to see a major strike in defence of public services as the PCS civil service workers’ union steps up its action against job cuts, low pay and privatisation.
The left has achieved remarkable success in the national executive elections for the lecturers’ union, UCU.
Jahan Hajipour is an Iranian journalist. He took time off work to join a delegation from Sheffield, where he now lives, to the People’s Assembly held in London on Tuesday of this week.
Gordon Brown this week made clear his enthusiasm for ending universal healthcare on the NHS.
New Labour pushed its plans to renew the Trident nuclear missile system through parliament last week – by relying on the backing of the Tories.
