Fighting the cuts Follow

Union activists in Bristol are busy building a public meeting on the pensions dispute. Mark Serwotka and other speakers will address the event on Monday 6 February.

Some 2,000 Edinburgh city council staff could see their jobs transferred to private contractors under council plans.

A lobby of parliament to stop library closures has been planned for 13 March.

Fewer than one in ten people support the government’s cuts, according to the 28th annual British Social Attitudes Survey published in last week.

More than 2,000 people marched on parliament last Saturday to highlight how government cuts are impacting on women.

The campaign to halt privatisation of council services in Edinburgh scored a major victory on Thursday of last week.

All unions representing workers at the BBC are to ballot for strikes against huge cuts.

The Department for Work and Pensions announced the closure of 19 job centres across Britain on Friday of last week after a period of consultation. They originally proposed closing 22 centres.

Over a million workers are entering the final week of their vote on whether to join the mass strike on 30 November.

The biggest ballot in Britain’s trade union history has begun.

More than 300 people are already signed up to the Unite the Resistance convention taking place in London on 19 November.

The rich rabble gathered at the Tory conference in Manchester could barely contain their delight.