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Berlyne Hamilton is a retired car worker who used to work at the Ford plant in Dagenham, east London. He spoke to Socialist Worker about his experience there as a shop steward.

Chanting "shame on you", some 100 antiwar protesters blocked a meeting that was going to be addressed by Israeli colonel Geva Rapp last night.

NUT union members at five schools in Croydon, south London, struck on Tuesday of this week over plans to close their schools and replace them with academies.

The dispute at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals factory in Wembley, north west London, took another turn for the worse this week as the GMB union called off further strike action and the company announced plans for up to 60 redundancies.

Royal Mail managers in north London are provoking possible strike action by introducing 35-hour contracts for new workers, instead of the 40-hour contracts that are agreed with the postal workers’ CWU union.

The London bus pay campaign has reached a crucial junction. Thousands of Unite union members across several major companies are still waiting for news of a new ballot for strikes – more than three months after their previous action was suspended in the face of legal threats.

A wave of student occupations in solidarity with the people of Gaza is continuing to spread across Britain. There are currently occupations at Kings College London and Oxford, Sussex, Newcastle and Kingston universities. There have also been sit ins at Warwick and Manchester Metropolitan.

Workers at London Metropolitan university are fighting a serious attack on jobs after management announced it wants to lose 330 full-time equivalent jobs.

Plans for a three-day strike, a public meeting and a march by workers at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals firm in north west London have been put on ice.

Some 300 bus workers employed by Sovereign in north west London are set to strike on Monday of next week and again on 11 February.

Up to 10,000 people attended a rally in Trafalgar Square on Saturday of last week.

Over 40 pro Palestine students occupied a lecture theatre at the London School of Economics (LSE) on Thursday afternoon to demand that the university releases a statement condemning the attack on Gaza and stops investing in arms companies that supply the Israeli military.