Several groups of workers are refusing to put their struggles to one side in the run-up to the general election and are holding successful strikes.
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Members of the CWU union have voted unanimously to support the Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn in the general election on 8 June.
Around 500 people gathered at Ducketts Common in North London last Sunday to celebrate the 40 year anniversary of the battle of Wood Green.
The union leadership’s failure to produce enough resistance to the Tory assault on the NHS defined Unison’s health conference in Liverpool this week.
A vote for strikes by London Underground workers has been possibly the first to fall foul of new Tory ballot thresholds.
School strikes are spreading across London even before the Tory funding cuts have begun to hit schools.
UCU union members at the University of Brighton were set to begin a two-day strike on Wednesday this week. Workers will escalate action, culminating in an all-out strike, if bosses don’t back down.
PCS members at Sheffield Eastern Avenue job centre are showing a clear determination to stop the closure of their office going ahead.
The general election in Scotland is likely to revolve around constitutional questions.
Theresa May is using anti-migrant feeling as a way to divide opposition to her government and to try and win votes.
The movement against the demolition of London estates took important steps forward last week.
