The suspension of this week’s local government strike underlines the need for rank and file organisation to hold union leaders to account.
The event will bring workers together to discuss how the fight against austerity can develop and debate how we can build bigger strikes to beat back the Tories.
The national NHS strike highlights the role unions can play in the fight against attacks on the health service.
As the prospect of more public sector strikes hangs in the balance the conference is more important than ever.
Strikers are demanding an unallocated €1.6 billion go towards workers' pay rise
London march on 27 October
Another day of mass resistance
Plus: 500 on Leeds unity march