Health workers in Tyneside were this week making preparations for an industrial action ballot to defend Yunus Bakhsh, a leading health activist, who has been suspended from work for seven weeks.
This Saturday another thousands strong demonstration is set to take place in Surrey to fight against local health cuts.
Fujitsu workers in Manchester took their first day of strike action on Monday in their campaign to defend union recognition, redundancy and redeployment rights, and for better pay.
JJB Sports workers were celebrating victory against one of Britain’s most ruthless companies this week.
"Socialist Worker is the only paper that reports the struggles that workers are facing across the country.
Around 1,000 local government workers lobbied parliament yesterday to demand a decent local government pension scheme.
My reading today comes from the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali. Here are his words of wisdom written on 15 August of this year. "Whether we like it or not, characteristic British values arise out of the Christian faith and its vision of personal and common good. These were clarified by the Enlightenment and became the bedrock of our modern political arrangements.
The government used last week’s Queen’s Speech to underline perhaps the most significant single assault on workers’ conditions for half a century – and yet hardly a voice was raised in opposition.
"No union, no peace," was the chant from cleaners and other campaigners demonstrating outside Goldman Sachs investment bank on Tuesday of this week.
The high command of the British Army officially sanctioned the hooding and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, a court martial has been told.
There were large and lively pickets at most of the Metroline bus garages. Around 60 strikers joined the picket lines at Potters Bar and 50 at Holloway.
Over 2,000 striking Metroline bus drivers brought whole areas of north and central London to a standstill on Monday.
