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Teachers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day national strike in June. The NUT union members, meeting for their national conference in Brighton, are fighting Tory education secretary Michael Gove's attacks on their pay, pensions and conditions.

Mike Gonzalez looks at the significance of the anti-imperialist giant of Latin American literature who died last week

London Underground (LU) workers are set to strike for five days over cuts to jobs, services and safety. The RMT union announced a 48-hour strike from Monday 28 April followed by a 72-hour walkout from Monday 5 May.

Migrant cleaners at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) have won improved holidays, sick pay and pensions from outsourcing giant ISS.

News shorts: One Housing workers vote for industrial action to defend union rep; Freedom Riders protest against four South Yorkshire Labour councils’ axing of their free train travel; Scottish Trade Union Congress takes place in Dundee this week; Deaths in police custody a theme of TUC Black Workers Conference last weekend; Strikes on the Clyde force bosses to offer better pay rise.

Labour fails to provide a real alternative to the Tories, so candidates in the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition aim to do better. Annette Mackin reports

The protests in Tiananmen Square that began 25 years ago this week showed the possibility of real socialism emerging in China, writes Dave Sewell

Twenty five years after the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, Sheila Coleman spoke to Sadie Robinson about the campaign that refused to let the establishment wash its hands of the victims—and why it’s right to fight back

The economic crisis has seen politicians whip up old bigotry to new heights, says Umberto Guerra of campaign Rromeurope

A team of the Sweeney— police flying squad officers —came up with a novel way of keeping crime under control in the 1990s. They decided to carry out their own kidnappings. 

Things that they say

Nicky Jacobs was found not guilty of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock last week. One of the Tottenham Three, Winston Silcott, spoke to Annette Mackin about the system’s racism