'OUR FIGHT IS WITH THE BOSSES — AND WITH GORDON BROWN'

With just an hour to go the metropolitan police told organisers of today’s Not One More Death protest that it would not be banned from marching to parliament

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Thousands of postal workers restarted their long running dispute with Royal Mail today by walking out in the first of two planned 48-hour strikes

Postal workers on strike for jobs and pensions, for public services, and for decent pay

Socialist Worker looks at the issues behind this week's industrial action in the postal service

The fight between the CWU postal workers' union and Royal Mail is a political dispute in which Gordon Brown is the real power behind the scenes

Attacks on the union in Watford | Solid action hits London

As political debate centres on the imminence of a general election, this should not mask the fact that Gordon Brown's electoral strategy is to move New Labour yet further rightwards to win Tory votes

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, shadow minister for community cohesion, sparked outrage last weekend by saying people who vote for the fascist British National Party (BNP) have "very legitimate views" on immigration

Gordon Brown is set to reveal this month the comprehensive spending review that outlines public spending for the next three years

Respect has launched an emergency £20,000 general election fundraising drive in preparation for an early poll

Tony Benn and Labour national executive member Walter Wolfgang are set to defy the law and lead a banned anti-war march down Whitehall to parliament next Monday—the day Gordon Brown has promised to deliver a statement on Britain's presence in occupied Iraq

Gordon Brown was in Basra in Iraq on Tuesday of this week to announce that 1,000 British troops would leave the city by the end of the year

Over 500 activists protested on Monday of this week at the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland

Management at Manchester mental health trust this week moved closer to disciplining, and possibly even sacking, leading health trade unionist Karen Reissmann

Campaigners against gun and knife crime in Tottenham, north London, are gearing up for a protest march on Sunday of next week, says Gary McFarlane

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They brought drums and homemade placards, set up a sea of tents in the factory grounds and turned the forecourt of the mill into a week-long mass meeting

Train drivers in Germany announced a national one-day strike to take place on Friday of this week, after negotiations with national rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) broke down

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union called off a strike by 73,000 workers at the General Motors (GM) US car firm, despite two days of solid action last week, after reaching a deal with the company

Last week saw Burma's military junta struggling to put down a rebellion of monks and ordinary people flocking onto the streets to protest against political repression and demand democracy

Revolt from below, not intervention from the West, is the key to overthrowing Burma's military junta, writes Giles Ji Ungpakorn

The history of Burma shows that meddling by imperial powers has always made things worse in the country

Trade union leaders supporting Labour regardless of the party's policies is a longstanding tradition—but it can be challenged by the radical left, writes Simon Basketter

John Riddell, the pre-eminent historian of the Communist Third International, continues his series by looking at the Comintern's attempt to build a worldwide party while avoiding the mistakes of the Second International

The first in our new series by Colin Barker looks at how mass movements can transform people

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Gerald Laing's War Art is finally being exhibited in London

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Liberal arguments that the West needs to defend "Enlightenment values" lead to a culture of bigotry, writes Arun Kundnani

Every one of the 800,000 Unison union members in local government who are due to be balloted from next week should vote for strikes to stop pay cuts and attacks on conditions

The government has stepped in to attempt to resolve the continuing chaos over the single status pay agreement but it has no solution to the crisis

Over 2,000 Unison union members who work for Birmingham council have attended mass meetings to discuss the imminent imposition of new contracts

Over 3,000 classroom assistants took strike action across Northern Ireland on Wednesday of last week to stop attacks on their pay and conditions

A series of "catastrophic" errors by police officers at all levels led to the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station, in 2005, a court has heard

In response to the coordinated union campaign against the closure of Remploy factories for disabled workers, minister Peter Hain has claimed there is a "good future" for the factories

Up to 12,000 bus workers at four different companies in London are currently moving towards industrial action to win better pay

Over 250,000 members of the PCS civil service workers' union are taking part in a consultative ballot to decide the next step in their dispute over job cuts, low pay and privatisation

Tube drivers on the Circle, Hammersmith and City and District lines on the London Underground last week showed how workers have the power to put safety over managers' wishes

Some 40 members of the NUJ journalists' union at the Coventry Telegraph are balloting for strike action over inadequate editorial staffing levels

A special pay conference for members of the UCU lecturers' union in further education colleges is set to take place this Saturday, which will discuss whether to reject a below inflation pay offer

Thirteen Hungarian pizza workers employed by a Domino's pizza franchise in Derby and Wolverhampton are celebrating a victory in their campaign for workplace justice

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