The Marxism 2005 event, which takes place in central London from Thursday 7 July to Monday 11 July, will be a great opportunity to develop a strategy for the movement after the protests against the G8.
Hundreds of media workers in the Bectu and Amicus unions struck between Friday and Sunday of last week at ITV. They are fighting for decent pay. Strikers picketed ITV offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham and Nottingham.
Iraq and the BBC dominated the NUJ journalists’ union conference in Scarborough last weekend.
Ambulance workers in Britain’s biggest health union have threatened to withdraw from Agenda for Change, the national pay and conditions scheme for health workers.
Ballot papers are going out for the Unison national executive elections. Unison United Left is standing a number of candidates.
FBU leadership is on the Wrack Ballot papers began going out on Wednesday of this week for the election of the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU).
‘Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother" was one of our slogans on the great demonstrations against attacks on the abortion law in the 1970s and 1980s. It is not out of date today. Women’s lives are at risk throughout pregnancy and childbirth. And while the risk in Britain is tiny, in most of the world — especially poorer countries — it is still very high.
Shock and bitterness spread throughout Birmingham and the West Midlands as news that Rover was going bust broke on Thursday night last week.
Many arguments over what should be done to save Longbridge could be heard among Rover workers and on the streets of Birmingham at the weekend.
Lecturers at Hackney Community College in east London struck on Thursday of last week in protest against at least 55 redundancies.
The government provided a £6.5 million loan for Longbridge this week. At a mass meeting on Monday we were told some of that will go to keeping us on the books for a week.
The long march begins This Saturday sees the start of the RMT transport union’s mobile demonstration and campaign against the privatisation of our railways. It will visit 15 British cities, for meetings and events.
