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Hundreds of people took to the streets of the Isle of Wight yesterday as part of a national day of action as part of the campaign to save jobs at the Vestas wind turbine factory.

Thousands of postal workers from across London struck for 24 hours today as part of a fight against attempts by Royal Mail to ram through thousands of job losses and attacks on working conditions.

Unite activists picketed Barclays shareholders on Thursday to protest against the closure of their final salary pension scheme.

Print workers in the Unite union at both the Guardian Print Centre and Trinity Mirror Group are balloting for industrial action.

IT workers have traditionally had fairly low union membership and, in the UK, IBM was no exception.

Anti-Nazi campaigners won a superb victory on the streets of Birmingham last Saturday.

Birmingham’s modern shopping centre, the Bull Ring, reflects a diverse and multicultural British city. On Saturday 8 August it was full of tourists and locals.

Weyman Bennett, the joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism (UAF) has been attacked by thugs.

Unite Against Fascism are in the final days of preparation for the massive anti-Nazi protest outside the BNP’s "Red, White and Blue" hate-fest in the village of Codnor, Derbyshire, this Saturday.

This has been a bad summer for left wing intellectuals. The radical political economists Giovanni Arrighi and Peter Gowan died within a few days of one another in June. And then last week the socialist philosopher GA "Jerry" Cohen died suddenly at the age of 68.

The US military has admitted that the Afghan resistance is spreading across the country.

A battle over pay and working conditions in the post office marks a new phase of the Egyptian workers’ movement.