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Lecturers marched back into work this morning chanting, “No ifs, no buts – no education cuts

The RMT transport union has produced two model letters of protest to send to Nicolas Petrovic, the chief executive of Eurostar and Simon Simcox, the transport business director of Carlisle, in support of the cleaners who struck last week

Postal workers in London have voted by a massive 96 percent to suspend funding to the Labour Party

Gordon Brown plans to slash spending on our public services by billions of pounds

Police smashed up the “blockade camp” outside the Vestas wind turbine factory and held back protesting workers as the company moved wind turbine blades on Tuesday

The Labour government has completely betrayed the sacked Vestas wind turbine workers

Around 600 Leeds refuse workers have been on all‑out strike for more than two weeks in a battle against the Tory/Lib Dem council

The strike is solid—most bins in Leeds have not been emptied since the action started more than two weeks ago

A month of all-out strike action by lecturers to defend education and jobs has forced concessions from management at Tower Hamlets College

Marcel, a 25-year old learning mentor at Tower Hamlets College in east London who is taking part in indefinite strike action against cuts in classes and jobs, shares his thoughts on the dispute

Firefighters are fighting a wave of cuts across Britain

Postal workers are facing a barrage of abuse from our bosses and the media because we dare to stand up for our jobs, our union, and for the public service that we provide

Post workers across much of the West of Scotland walked out on unofficial strike on Friday of last week after management punished drivers at Glasgow mail centre for refusing to cross their colleagues’ picket lines

At least 43,000 post workers across Britain will join regional strikes in a massive show of strength on Tuesday of next week

Will workers ditch Labour? Postal workers in London will indicate whether they want to continue to fund the Labour Party in a ballot of CWU union members, the result of which was set to be announced this week

Union activist Jim Board was reinstated by Doncaster council on Friday of last week

The main parties’ plans will hit vulnerable people, writes Eileen Boyle

A new breed of shark is out to sink its teeth into students, hoping to fleece the young and financially inexperienced of their student loans before they’ve even started term

A call centre worker at the student loans advice line spoke to Socialist Worker

The supreme commander of occupation troops in Afghanistan has opened up a serious rift between the military top brass and Barack Obama’s administration over the direction of the war

French police took apart the refugee camp known as “the jungle”, outside Calais this week

The family of Omar Deghayes, a former detainee in Guantanamo Bay, have endured a series of racist attacks in their hometown of Saltdean, near Brighton

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man wrongly convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has published documents on the internet to prove his innocence

Like desperate poker players, the leaders of the three main political parties are trying to outbid each other as to who will make the cuts in public spending they claim are needed to bridge Britain’s budget deficit

For three days now, crowds have gathered around the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras

A US airstrike on a suspected Al Qaida leader, Saleh Nabhan, in Somalia has triggered a new round of fighting in the east African state

Dozens of Egyptian workers’ and human rights’ organisations have rallied to support Kamal Abu Eita, the president of the independent tax collectors’ union, after a legal case was launched against him

Is Barack Obama’s decision to cancel the deployment of missile defence in central and eastern Europe another sign of how the US has been weakened by the Iraq disaster?

Martin Narey, the chief executive of the Barnardo’s charity, is rarely out of the headlines

Just over a year ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank ushered in the worst global economic crisis since the 1930s

Trade unionists, broadcasters and campaigners discuss the BBC decision to invite the BNP leader on to its flagship debating programme

Mike Gonzalez looks at what has been achieved in Venezuela and where Hugo Chavez is heading

In the final part of our series Esme Choonara looks at a period when workers did not lead and other groups followed their own agenda

There are no ‘kind’ cuts | Loans that increase the strain | Post farce costing us everything | Excessive monitoring could lead to sacking | Policies lead to rising nationalism | Labour inflicts pain on us all | Left must face up to BNP | Debate will expose Griffin | Respect the victims | Problems in Afghanistan

Promising a cinematic celebration of 40 years of riots and struggle, Born in ’68 manages only a pale reflection, says Jacqui Freeman

Do you remember how it felt to wake up in 1997 with the bitter Tory years behind you?

ON THE RADIO with Mike Gonzalez

These two classic films by the Indian master of film-making Satyajit Ray are now available on DVD for the first time

A welcome revival for DH Lawrence’s play, which is a family portrait set in a Midlands mining community at the beginning of the 20th century

US artist Andrea Zittel hates consumerism

All the main parties agree on cutting services vital to ordinary people, but it is the top of society that is the most wasteful, writes Simon Basketter

Did the Office & General (O&G) company contrive a way to make cleaning activist Juan Carlos Piedra redundant because of his trade union activities?

Cleaners of the Eurostar trains at St Pancras International defied their union busting management at the Carlisle cleaning company when they struck last week

Shop stewards from construction unions have voted by a 25 to 20 majority to recommend that workers accept a new “Blue Book” agreement at a meeting in Manchester last Thursday

More protests have been held at Smethwick chicken factory 2 Sisters, as 55 workers face disciplinary action over unofficial walkouts

Finance workers at the Capita company in Glasgow are set to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week over pay

The latest meeting of the Hazel Must Go campaign took place against the backdrop of continued negative headlines about scandal-ridden New Labour MP Hazel Blears

Workers at British Telecom’s Openreach company have decisively rejected a plan to introduce more flexible working into their contracts

The ongoing attack on local government workers across Britain took a dangerous step forward earlier this month as Lancashire County Council attempted to restrict the ability of trade unionists to represent their members

Drivers at Travel London West’s Hayes garage have voted unanimously to reject a pay offer from management and by 41 to three for strike action

Thousands of workers at Corus are to be balloted on industrial action over the steel group’s plans to close its final salary pension scheme to new entrants

Some 150 workers and their supporters marched through Holyhead to the Anglesey Aluminium smelter, last Saturday

The Trade Union Congress in Liverpool last week voted to support a boycott of goods from illegal Israeli settlements along with a call for an end to arms sales to the country

The pressure on the union leaders over their loyalty to the Labour government emerged on the conference floor of the TUC last week

The Student Stop the War conference in London last Saturday brought 120 delegates from across the country together to discuss the tasks of the anti-war movement

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Bosses at a factory near Huddersfield have banned music on the shopfloor - but workers say they won’t suffer in silence

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