Issues

Issue - 3020
Dated - 25 Aug 2026
Unions round-up: Manchester health workers prepare to strike over lack of overtime pay

Health workers set to strike across four Manchester hospitals

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In this issue

Protesters marched through London in November 2022 against world’s leaders climate inaction at the Cop27 conference (Picture: Guy Smallman)
Environment

How workers can fight the climate catastrophe

The climate crisis is impossible to ignore
22 August 2026
A lockdown on dissent
Anti-racism

Prevent scheme was rotten from the start

Prevent turns ordinary people into spies
22 August 2026
Protest in support of the Barclays Five outside Preston Crown Court on Friday 21 August
News

Barclays Five Palestine activists won’t be sentenced as terrorists

Palestine activists elated after judge’s ruling
22 August 2026
The buzzcocks at the Manchester Rock Against Racism carnival in 1978Picture: John Sturrock
Anti-racism

Looking back at Rock Against Racism—with hope for the future

Interviews with RAR organisers 50 years on
22 August 2026
An image of a missile being shot by the Ukrainian military
International

Britain dragged deeper into the long war over Ukraine

Russia has threatened revenge after British-made drones targeted its oil refineries and transport networks
21 August 2026
EEH Unison strikers and supporters marked 30 days of action this week with a lunch event
News

Time running out for East End Homes strikers

Deadline to accept new conditions approaches
21 August 2026
Homeless person's dwelling, a tent in a city back street
News

Burnham’s pledges won’t be enough to end homelessness

Homelessness charity worker explains why more cash is not enough
21 August 2026
Unite union members rally at NHS East London Foundation Trust on 20 August 2026
News

NHS workers pushing for strikes as cuts threaten thousands of jobs

Labour’s health secretary has no answers
20 August 2026
Angie Nixon campaigning in Florida in US Democratic primaries
International

Democratic socialists make waves in Florida

Progressive candidate has won primary in Republican dominated state
20 August 2026
The pamphlet gives legitimacy to the idea that asylum seekers are a threat to women
Anti-racism

Government pamphlet legitimises racist lies about violence against women

Predictably, the racist right has seized on the pamphlet
20 August 2026
St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Anti-racism

Far right figures are growing their influence inside the University of Cambridge

The racist network that targeted Jason Arday
20 August 2026
Trade Unions

‘We hope that we can inspire others,’ say ICR strikers

Unite union members have their eyes on the prize
20 August 2026