Workers at corrugated packaging company Smurfit Kappa in Northampton held a solid two-day walkout last week in defence of two sacked senior shop stewards.
Around 300 people joined a march and rally in support of hospital porters at Ninewells and Victoria Hospitals in Dundee last Saturday. The porters began an indefinite strike on Tuesday of this week.
Members of the Unite union at Tory-run Bromley Council in south London held two days of strikes from Tuesday of this week.
Around 300 people opposed the racist Pegida UK group in Whitehall, central London, last Saturday. The protest was called by Unite Against Fascism (UAF).
Refuse lorry drivers in Barking and Dagenham, east London, struck for two days from Tuesday of this week against council bosses’ plans to slash their pay by £1,000 a year.
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Victimised Unison union rep and Whipps Cross Hospital worker Charlotte Monro has been reinstated by Barts Health NHS Trust in east London.
A detainee who took part in protests at the Verne immigration detention centre in Dorset last month is being held in segregation.
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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) election campaigns across Britain are helping build the fightback among people who are looking for an alternative to austerity.
Anne Lemon speaks out about how she’s using her campaign to build resistance to austerity.
The Scottish National Party is benefitting from the desire for an alternative, writes Raymie Kiernan
