Postal workers in Cupar, Fife, walked out in defence of a sacked colleague for the second time yesterday, Monday.
Around 400 people marched against fracking in Upton, near Chester, last Saturday.
Over 100 tenants, trade unionists, councillors and Traveller groups attended an organising meeting against the Tories’ Housing and Planning Bill last Saturday.
Recycling workers in Keynsham, near Bath, struck against low pay on Thursday and Friday of last week.
Less than 100 miles from London, the French authorities are using threats of violence to corral refugees into a new prison camp.
Anti-racists in Dover are building opposition to a planned anti-refugee march by the Nazi National Front (NF) and other fascists on Saturday 30 January.
Workers on London Underground were set to strike on Tuesday of next week for 24 hours.
Junior doctors’ leaders have called off a strike that was set to begin on Tuesday of next week.
Teachers at Birmingham’s Small Heath school began a three-day strike today, Tuesday, to stop their school becoming an academy.
Steel firm Tata announced 1,000 new job cuts this week, including 750 at the Port Talbot steel works in South Wales.
The government plans to put the renewal of Britain’s Trident nuclear submarine programme to the vote later this year. It wants to spend more than £160 billion on four Scottish-based submarines whose only purpose is to threaten the whole of humanity.
Across the world stock markets and commodity prices are tumbling. Those in the ruling class who gloated about “recovery” last year now warn that the global economy could crash again. Some blame it on oil prices, others on China’s slump – Socialist Worker sorts the fact from the fantasy
