Up to 15,000 people rallied in Glasgow’s George Square last Sunday at an event called by the Hope Over Fear campaign initiated by Tommy Sheridan.
This week’s health strike was a big success—now many want more action, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans
A strike over pay by hundreds of thousands of local government workers scheduled for Tuesday of this week was suspended last week.
The suspension of this week’s local government strike underlines the need for rank and file organisation to hold union leaders to account.
Anger at years of pay freezes and attacks on the union is driving the civil service walkout, set to take place on Wednesday of this week.
Picket lines and protests from the four hour strike for health service pay
Up to 500,000 NHS workers in England struck out four hours today, Monday, in the first national health strike over pay for 32 years.
Health bosses are cooking up a frantic plan to use doctors, nurses and other medics to run ambulances during tomorrow’s NHS strike, Socialist Worker can reveal.
The planned joint strike of hundreds of thousands of local government workers in the Unison, GMB and Unite unions on Tuesday of next week has been suspended.
Fiona Woolf, the chair of the inquiry into historic child abuse has stepped back from issuing a statement about her links to Leon Brittan.
The family of Mark Duggan has raised serious questions over police conduct surrounding his shooting in August 2011 and the investigation into his death.
The fascist British National Party (BNP) has expelled former leader Nick Griffin.
