Socialist party Solidarity held a specially reconvened conference last Saturday to discuss its position on the general election. Around 65 people attended.
The Unite, GMB and Community unions are set to ballot their members working for steel giant Tata Steel over bosses’ attacks on their pensions.
Anti-racist student and member of the Socialist Worker Student Society, Saba Shiraz was elected Black Members Officer at Birkbeck University in London last week with 44.3 percent of the vote.
Labour-run Glasgow City Council wants to axe 350 home carers. It plans to force 1,600 workers onto new shift patterns, which would break working regulations.
Manufacturing workers in Bridgwater, Somerset, walked out in the seventh of 11 planned 36-hour strikes at fruit juice maker Refresco-Gerber last week.
The RMT union is set to ballot all of its members working for outsourcer Interserve on London Underground in defence of sacked cleaners’ rep Clara Osagiede.
Rank and file construction workers and supporters blocked London’s Oxford Street last week over sackings on the Crossrail project
Cleaners at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London were set to protest on Thursday of this week against their employer, outsourcing giant ISS.
Some 120 anti-fascists turned out to oppose a protest by around 30 racists from the Scottish Defence League (SDL) in Edinburgh last Saturday.
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Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield is continuing to give evidence to inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans who died as a result of the 1989 disaster.
A Fast Food Rights meeting in central Glasgow last Saturday reflected the energy of the workers’ movement in the US.
