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The Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943 was a high point of Jewish resistance. And in both its scale and heroism it was one of the key events in the history of resistance to the Nazis.

The result of the Unite general secretary election shows a real call from Unite members to discuss the direction of the union. The election campaign was the beginning of that. 

The shock results of the Unite union general secretary election revealed the scale of workers’ frustration with the policies of current leader Len McCluskey.

When asked about her greatest achievement, Margaret Thatcher famously replied, “Tony Blair and New Labour”. So it’s quite appropriate that, as one monster is laid to rest, the other should suddenly surface.

Students at Sussex university are taking part in a week of action against the privatisation of staff posts and the victimisation of student protesters. 

The Unison union is set to hold its NEC elections from  22 April to 24 May.

Some 60 percent of Unison union members in Scottish local government have voted to reject a 1 percent pay offer in a consultation ballot on a 25 percent turnout.

Up to 180 trade unionists and campaigners came to a North West Unite the Resistance conference in Manchester last Saturday.

Teachers in the north west of England were set to join a march and rally in memory of Lucy Meadows this Saturday.

Up to 4,000 workers at 373 Crown Post Offices are set to strike for half a day on Friday afternoon of this week.

Nursery nurses in Swansea schools held a protest outside County Hall last week over the loss of thousands of pounds from their pay.

Kiln burners at Hansons Brick near Peterborough have entered the second of six weeks of action to defend their conditions.