Up to 1,000 postal workers and their supporters joined a march and rally in Kingston, south west London, against the privatisation of Royal Mail last Saturday.
The TUC is calling for a quarter of a million trade unionists to take to the streets of London and march against the government’s brutal cuts on Saturday 26 March.
The legal right to strike received another blow last week as a High Court judge granted an injunction on petty technicalities to halt a 48-hour strike by Docklands Light Railway (DLR) workers in London.
A socialist from Tunisia who was present during the uprising which toppled dictator Ben Ali will speak. Professor Phil Marfleet, who has recently returned from Egypt, will talk about the situation across the Middle East.
"Sack the bankers, not the workers." That chant rang out through Wood Green Shopping City, in Haringey, north London, on Monday as 1,000 teachers, council workers and anti-cuts campaigners marched on Haringey Civic Centre.
More than 1,000 students are marching on parliament in London, as students protest over Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) in towns and cities across the country.
The legal right to strike received another blow today as a High Court judge granted an injunction on technicalities to halt a 48-hour strike by Docklands Light Railway (DLR) workers in London.
Most histories of the Wapping strike talk about how Murdoch "fooled" the union leaders by saying his new plant was for a fictitious newspaper, called the London Post.
Mohammed, a Tunisian socialist living in London, flew to Tunis last week to take part in the mass protest that forced Ben Ali to flee the country. He spoke to Socialist Worker:
A quarter of buses run by the Metroline firm in London have serious defects and should not be on the road. That was the shocking conclusion of a report in the Evening Standard newspaper last week.
Workers on the Northern and Bakerloo tube lines joined a second 24-hour strike from Friday evening of last week—defying London mayor Boris Johnson who launched a tirade of abuse against the tube workers.
