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The Socialist Workers Party held its annual conference last weekend.

2011 was the year when what often seemed like Marxist abstractions—crisis, revolution and mass strikes—became living realities.

Voting begins this week in the by-election for a seat on Unison’s national executive council.

Workers across Greece’s Attica region plan to walk out on Tuesday of next week in solidarity with three all-out strikes.

Workers at a drug treatment centre in Hackney, east London, are to ballot for industrial action against cuts to jobs and services.

The Republican primaries in the US—the long process that decides who the party’s presidential candidate will be—started in the Midwestern state of Iowa last week. The contest moved on to New Hampshire this Tuesday.

Baggage handlers at Liverpool’s John Lennon airport will stop striking at the end of this month, their union has announced.

Workers at Doncaster council are to ballot on whether to accept or reject a 4 percent pay cut.

Revenue and Customs (HMRC) workers in the PCS union were set to strike this coming Monday.

The cross-examination of the prosecution’s star witness resumed on Monday in the trial of six Zimbabwe socialists.

Some 150 electricians returned their unsigned contracts in protest to Balfour Beatty’s headquarters at Hillington in Scotland last Friday.

Disabled people and their supporters were set to lobby the House of Lords on Wednesday of this week against measures in the Welfare Reform Bill.