Some 150,000 people filled the streets of Durham last Saturday for the 131st Durham Miners Gala.
The CWU postal workers’ union launched a campaign against the effects of privatisation in the postal industry on Thursday of last week.
Campaigners in both Bromley, south London, and Glasgow stopped two evictions in the past week.
Workers at the National Gallery in central London plan to walk out for three days every week until August, when they will hold a consultative ballot on an all-out strike.
A new offer from council bosses was being debated by a mass meeting of Glasgow homelessness caseworkers as Socialist Worker went to press on Tuesday of this week.
The opening rally of Marxism 2015 thundered with applause from up to 900 people this evening, Friday, as strikers addressed the Institute of Education’s Logan Hall in central London.
London Underground was completely shut last night and today, Thursday, as all four Tube unions staged a 24-hour strike. Not a train moved and not a station opened.
Reports from a budget day of strikes and demonstrations
Millions of working class people began this week in fear as Tory chancellor George Osborne prepared for his budget.
Porters in the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford have voted overwhelmingly to strike against bosses’ attacks on pay.
Workers leading resistance to austerity and privatisation will show union leaders what needs to be done.
Criminal defence solicitors across the country began to refuse to do legal aid work at the start of the month.
