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Short reports on Yorkshire Freedom Rides campaign, protesting against deaths in custody, Bolton health anti-privatisation campaign and strikes by prison officers, refuse collectors and train conductors

Children’s admin workers at Sandwell Council have defeated bosses’ plans to downgrade their posts and cut their pay by up to £4,000 a year.

Working class people filled the streets of London last Saturday in a mass show of opposition to Tory austerity.

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

A revolt is growing among local government workers after unions suspended strikes over pay.

This week’s health strike was a big success—now many want more action, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

A strike over pay by hundreds of thousands of local government workers scheduled for Tuesday of this week was suspended last week.

The suspension of this week’s local government strike underlines the need for rank and file organisation to hold union leaders to account.

Picket lines and protests from the four hour strike for health service pay

Up to 500,000 NHS workers in England struck out four hours today, Monday, in the first national health strike over pay for 32 years.

Health bosses are cooking up a frantic plan to use doctors, nurses and other medics to run ambulances during tomorrow’s NHS strike, Socialist Worker can reveal.

The planned joint strike of hundreds of thousands of local government workers in the Unison, GMB and Unite unions on Tuesday of next week has been suspended.