Nazi British National Party (BNP) leader, Nick Griffin, was booted out of the European parliament in election results announced last Sunday.
Cinema workers at the Ritzy Picturehouse in south London struck for the fifth day in six weeks on Wednesday of last week.
Campaigners in Barnsley plan to lobby the council on Thursday of this week to demand the reinstatement of free train travel for older people in South Yorkshire.
The PCS union’s annual conference took place between Tuesday and Thursday of last week.
Doncaster Care UK workers’ strike committee was set to meet on Wednesday of this week to decide the next steps in their dispute. The Unison union members have struck for 34 days since the end of February.
Activists in the Unison union took part in a day of action over pay on Wednesday of last week. In Portsmouth, union members leafletted workers at the city’s civic offices urging them to vote yes in an upcoming strike ballot over pay.
Construction workers took part in a series of protests on Friday of last week. The protests were part of a national day of action against “umbrella” tax scams.
Some 90 supporters of RMT union rep Mark Harding gathered outside his trial at the City of London magistrates’ court on Friday of last week.
A consultative ballot of 100,000 health workers in the Unite union was set to end on Friday of this week.
One million workers across different unions could strike together on 10 July. That would be a massive boost to the resistance to the Tories.
The NUT union has said it will “take action” with other workers on 10 July if talks with the government fail.
Organising maximum solidarity for the indefinite strike at Lambeth College will be a big part of the backdrop at the UCU union’s annual congress in Manchester this week.
