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Firefighters in England have announced a four day strike in the battle against Tory pension theft. The walk out will begin at 6pm on Friday 31 October.

The Cabinet Office issued orders to ban the London borough of Tower Hamlets deputy mayor Oliur Rahman from his workplace on Tuesday of last week.

The fight for better pay at Defence Support Group (DSG) has begun in earnest. Pickets gathered at Ministry of Defence (MoD) bases in Donnington near Telford and Sealand in north Wales on Thursday of last week.

Leading on how strikes can transform the mood in work and including letters on why the SNP are not radical and why Labour should offer working class people something to work for

Strikes showed workers’ power—now unions must escalate the action, says?Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Annette Mackin argues the Tories’ Carr Review of anti-trade union laws shows bosses will only go further on the offensive if we don’t put up a fight

Nigeria; Catalonia; Russia

The new musical is both funnier and politically sharper than the film with a powerful message of working class struggle and solidarity, writes?Paul McGarr

Some 500 people died of Ebola during the last week, taking the total of this outbreak past 4,500. 

This exhibition marks the 250th anniversary of Horace Walpole’s 1764 The Castle of Otranto, regarded as the first gothic novel.

David Cameron has said he wants to limit free movement within the European Union (EU).

These two books bring to life the fiery days of the US revolutionary black movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s.