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Unite members debate Brexit, racism and defending migrants at conference

Delegates at the Unite union conference in Brighton this week debated Brexit, jobs, the Labour Party and racism.

Step up fight to win ballot

Activists in the PCS civil service workers’ union have held protests and campaigning activities to drive up the vote in a national strike ballot.

Tories are in open war as MPs threaten splits

Theresa May is caught beteween big business’s fury and ‘blackmailing’ Brexiters

West Mids bosses retreat after a vote for fire action

Strong support for strikes among firefighters in the West Midlands has forced bosses to back down from an attack on their terms and conditions.

Tories must deliver after pledge on Salford childcare

Salford Save Our Nurseries Campaign is asking its supporters to join a lobby of education secretary Damien Hinds and minister Nadhim Zahawi.

Carers won’t work for free

Care workers in Bath and North East Somerset (BNES) have concluded a programme of action that saw them strike for two hours every other day for most of June.

Reports round up: Labour’s housing trouble in Haringey

The left wing leadership of Labour-run Haringey council has come under fire for its treatment of people living on the Broadwater Farm estate.

New York socialist vote shakes up the right wing

The victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a US Democratic Party internal election last week reflects a mood to resist Trump, writes Alistair Farrow

‘We won’t let fascists go on rampage in Leeds’

Trade union leaders, Labour Party branches and others are backing a protest against the fascist English Defence League (EDL) in Leeds on Saturday.

Key tests for anti-racists - hold the streets against Donald Trump and the fascists

Anti-racists are building opposition to the renewed threat of the British far right regrouping.

VIDEO - Wigan hospital strikers join tens of thousands on march for NHS

Workers fighting privatisation in Wigan joined the big demonstration in central London to mark the NHS's 70th anniversary

Big demonstration of people fighting for the NHS and against the Tories

Anger against the Tories' assault on the NHS was on the streets of London on Saturday.

Tens of thousands of people take to the streets to defend the NHS

Tens of thousands of people gathered for the NHS at 70 national demonstration in central London this Saturday.

Postal workers strike back against bullying management

Postal workers at a Royal Mail delivery office in Ferndale, South Wales, staged an unofficial strike on Tuesday and Wednesday over problems with management.

Reports show lies, kidnap and torture at the hands of the British state

The evidence—just a glimpse of the true situation—should shatter any talk of the superiority of “British values”.

Wigan hospital workers strike against outsourcing and privatisation

Hundreds of hospital workers across Wigan took to picket lines on Thursday after bosses agreed to push ahead with plans to outsource 900 jobs.

European leaders wash their hands of drowning refugees

Italy’s racist interior minister Matteo Salvini told rescue ships to let refugees drown in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday.

End Trump’s racist rule

As Donald Trump’s policies lock up migrants and their children, we all need to take to the streets when he makes his visit to Britain, writes Alistair Farrow