More than 200,000 textile workers across Bangladesh protested for higher wages last week, forcing hundreds of factories to close.
Plans trailed at the Tories’ annual get together show we have to step up the fight
Up to 15,000 health workers and campaigners marched on Saturday, against Tory cuts at Stafford Hospital.
Several fascists were arrested today, including Golden Dawn MPs, following historic strikes against the Nazis and a growing anti-fascist movement. Read the Socialist Workers Party in Greece (SEK) statement.
Pictures from picket lines and protests
Sadie Robinson reports on today's 4-hour strike by firefighters in England and Wales
Glasgow social workers unofficial walkout spread across the whole of the city council's Homeless Service to win reinstatement of of suspended colleague
Workers in South Gloucestershire council Unison are set to strike against the removal of enhanced pay for Saturday working. A massive 92 percent backed strikes in a recent ballot. Union membership has risen dramatically during the campaign for industrial action.
Some 650 Unite union workers at Alexander Dennis bus manufacturers in Falkirk struck for four days over the last week in a dispute over pay.
Lecturers at the University of Liverpool have scored a victory over management. Bosses had threatened to dismiss 2,803 workers if they refused to sign new contracts. These contracts would allow bosses to call in workers as needed—without giving them any time off in lieu in return.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has admitted the police were involved with the illegal Consulting Association blacklist of trade unionists in the construction industry.
Alasdair Smith reports from Anti Academies Alliance (AAA) steering committee
