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Socialist Worker has copies of secret documents that reveal meticulous preparation over how to beat a strike in Royal Mail. Next week’s Socialist Worker will feature an in depth breakdown of the strategy outlined in the secret documents and how it can be challenged.

The postal workers’ CWU union has announced the dates for its national strike action. All mail centres and the network drivers (around 42,000 postal workers) are set to take action for 24 hours from 4am on Thursday 22 October. Delivery offices and collection staff (around 78,000 postal workers) are set to strike for 24 hours on Friday 23 October.

With management bullying at near epidemic proportions—and a major factor behind the recent 3 to 1 strike vote—you might think that Royal Mail would want to improve relations with its workers.

Workers at London Metropolitan University began a two-day strike this morning, Thursday, against job losses and course cuts.

Intelligence services specialise in deception. So when MI5 decides to mark the centenary of its foundation with an "authorised history" it is sensible to take it with a pinch of salt.

A national battle is brewing over pay as Britain’s biggest bus operator, First, tries to impose a pay freeze on thousands of its workers.

A series of deadly bomb attacks in Pakistan and demands from the US military for a "super surge" in Afghanistan underline the growing instability as the "war on terror" enters its ninth year.

The new college year looks like it will be a volatile one. It has begun with the economic crisis hitting home. Thousands of university applicants have been denied places while the lucky ones have been crammed into overcrowded lecture theatres and accommodation.

Around 70 teachers attended the NUT union’s LGBT conference last Saturday.

Labour only has one card left to play in its pack if it is to avoid humiliation at next year’s general election – keep hollering that David Cameron is out to follow in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher.

Is Labour a friend to working class people? The Tories and New Labour are no more than bullies who are competing with each other to see who can be the most vile to ill and unemployed people.

The BBC’s decision to invite Nick Griffin, the leader of the fascist British National Party (BNP), onto next week’s Question Time is continuing to cause outrage.