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Dozens of civilians have been killed and hundreds more injured by regime airstrikes on Aleppo in the past ten days. Dictator Bashar al-Assad’s exploding barrels signalled the end of the partial, and fragile, ceasefire that came into effect in March. 

Two leading trade union activists at London Metropolitan University were last week told that they will be made redundant. The move against UCU union branch chair Mark Campbell and branch secretary David Hardman is a serious attack on the union.

As French MPs prepare to debate a new law attacking workers’ rights, the centre left government is digging in its heels against workers, students and the new “Nuit Debout” movement.

Best wishes and solidarity from Socialist Worker on International Workers' Day. A history of May Day is here. A pdf of solidarity messages placed in Socialist Worker is available here

Tomáš Tengely-Evans and John Rose look at the response to accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party

Brazil awoke on Thursday to extensive blockades of 30 highways in 10 states by activists of the combative homeless workers’ movement MTST.

Workers' Memorial Day was marked with a number of vigils and rallies on Thursday 28 April. The same day saw a 60 year old worker killed on the new Forth Bridge construction site.

 

Museum workers across Wales are in urgent need of solidarity after beginning an all-out strike today, Thursday.

Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt was rocked by two solid junior doctors’ walkouts last week—now is the time to press home the advantage. 

South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officers did a "good job" in the 1980s, according to an organisation for retired officers.

Junior doctors walked out across England today, Wednesday, in their second ten-hour “full walkout” determined to resist the imposition of a dangerous new contract.