UCU union members are fighting for their union leaders to escalate action in a dispute over pay. They include members of the UCU Left, which Socialist Workers Party members are part of.
Teachers at a privately-run school in north London are voting on whether to strike to demand union recognition.
Students at the University of Sussex are continuing their campaign against bosses’ attempts to discipline five students for their role in an occupation last year.
Amy Jowett’s leg was broken on a demonstration opposing the British National Party (BNP) on 1 June last year in central London (above). She has issued an appeal for information.
Tory chancellor George Osborne promised this week that 2014 will be “a year of hard truths”. This means more cuts.
Angry residents in Birmingham’s James Turner Street spoke to Socialist Worker about a new TV show about their lives being broadcast on Channel Four.
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Firefighters in England and Wales in the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) went on strike last night, New Years Eve, over government attacks on their pensions.
Firefighters in England and Wales walked out on strike on Christmas Eve, Tuesday, over government attacks on their pensions.
Workers at a homeless people's hostel in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, have walked out for a 12 day strike over Christmas. They are members of the Unite union employed by charity St Mungo's.
Workers at a homeless hostel in Hertfordshire were set to strike for 12 days over Christmas to win terms and conditions they say they were promised.
Some 200 workers from the GMB, Unite and Prospect unions in Portsmouth dockyard held a march and rally on Saturday of last week to save shipbuilding in Portsmouth.
