Lay-offs and closures / Imperial College sacking vital IT workers

University managers plan to axe more than half their IT staff, despite their heroic work in enabling vital pandemic research.

Pay and conditions / Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker

Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.

Disputes / Covid couriers sacked for requesting PPE and social distancing

Workers responsible for transporting covid test samples from hospitals to labs are being victimised for requesting basic safety measures.

Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

Industry / ‘Back to work’ stampede – and may the devil take the hindmost

Reopening schools and workplaces without proper safety measures highlights the government’s true priorities.

Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

Outsourced waste collector Biffa is playing fast and loose with its workers’ pay.

Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

Pay and conditions / Firefighters victory forces government retreat on public sector pensions

The FBU has won its case to get former pension rights restored, and the case has wide implications.

Industry / Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger

Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.

France / French class war continuing as neither side looks ready to back down

Macron continues to push EU-backed pensions attack while unions have called for a general strike and total oil refinery blockade.

France / French strikes expand and deepen as more workers join the fray

A class war is underway in France and the workers show no sign of backing down. Victoire aux grévistes!

France / Support the French strikers!

France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

France / France goes on strike: can Macron survive?

As militant trade unionists prepare to join yellow vests on the streets, the class struggle in France is moving into a new gear.

Disputes / Royal Mail: high court bans the strike

For how long will we accept the right of bosses’ courts to decide how workers’ organisations are run?

Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Trade unions / Stifling criticism of Israel in the British trade-union movement

TUC votes in support of Palestine, but decision is ignored by the media, including those on the left.

Disputes / Royal Mail workers vote overwhelmingly to strike

Mail workers are ready to fight for their pay and conditions, but is their union prepared to back them?

Climate change / The TUC and climate change: don’t mention the wars

Unions tail-end middle-class eco protests and stoke illusions in ‘green’ capitalism.

Iran / Unions call on British government to send in the gunboats

What would Bob Crow have said to the ITF’s blindly acquiescing in the war games of our imperial masters?

Italy / Italian dockers obstruct Saudi’s criminal war on Yemen

Dockworkers in Genoa have given a vital lesson to workers everywhere in how to harness our collective strength.

Lay-offs and closures / Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall

In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.

Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

Disputes / Deliveroo strikes spread

Increasing numbers of workers in the gig economy are fighting for basic rights at work.

Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

Disputes / Deliveroo strike in Bristol: gig economy workers fight back

Resistance to the poverty pay and union-busting tactics of so many zero-hour and gig economy employers is gathering momentum.

Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

Pay and conditions / Support the workers against Condor and the ships of shame!

Defend Brexit and fight for better working conditions for all.

Disputes / Cammell Laird strike suspended for now

Workers’ resistance has led to a stay of execution at the Merseyside shipyard.

Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

British politics / Venezuela solidarity falling short

British workers have the power to give real solidarity to Venezuela, which is in the front line of the struggle against the imperialist enemy.

Pay and conditions / University of Manchester support staff to strike against pension attacks

Cleaners, caterers, security and admin staff are fighting to defend their right to a dignified retirement.

Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

Disputes / FE lecturers ballot over derisory pay offer

It is not the job of workers to square the accounts of their employers.

Pay and conditions / Bosses’ pay soars

While Labour business rep worries over ‘undermining public trust in business’!

Disputes / Support the fast food strikers!

Fast food workers across Britain are organising to demand decent pay and conditions.

Pay and conditions / University of London workers strike a blow against the outsourcing racket

A simple demand for a basic rights is causing consternation in the camp of the class enemy.

Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

Disputes / West Midlands firefighters threat of strike causes employer to retreat?

Long live workers’ militant unity.

Disputes / French rail workers lead the fight to defend pay and conditions

Macron's government hopes to use divide-and-rule tactics to break the resistance of the French working class.

Trade unions / Universities union leader Sally Hunt sidesteps members’ censure motion

Trade union 'democracy' in action.

Industry / GKN takeover brings mayhem to thousands of working-class lives

Unelected shareholders and executives continue to make decisions affecting thousands of families, revealing the true nature of the capitalist system.

Disputes / University workers sold down the river

With friends like the University and College Union leadership, who needs enemies?

France / France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’

French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.

Leaflets / Hands off lecturers’ pensions

A decent pension for all workers is a right, not a privilege.

Trade unions / Postal union caves in on pensions

The CWU's failure to stand up to the marketisation of pensions will affect more than just postal workers.

Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

Disputes / Crossrail electricians walk out

Blacklisting Balfour Beatty manager dismisses union members in an attept to avert strike action.

Disputes / Migrant workers in London: We are not the dirt we clean

New unions are championing London's invisible workforce.

Disputes / Rail strikes multiplying

The government and rail operators are continuing to force unsafe driver only operation onto staff and passengers.

Trade unions / Super Puma helicopter still flying despite multiple fatal crashes

The government continues to prioritise private profit over public safety.

Cote d’Ivoire / Draconian response to customs officers’ strike in Cote d’Ivoire

Behind Ouattara’s comprador regime lies the not-so-hidden hand of French and US imperialism.

Trade unions / Aslef’s ‘shabby deal’

Rail bosses use divide and rule tactics to weaken resistance to safety-cutting measures.

Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

Disputes / Editorial: Message to Birmingham’s bin workers

Trade unions / Derek Robinson: the passing of a working-class hero

A staunch and fearless union leader, one of an increasingly rare breed.

Industry / Industry matters: Fighting the trade war harder

Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

Palestine / What more can we do for Palestine?

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

British politics / How the scabs were ditched, and other dirty laundry of 1989-90

The latest release of cabinet papers gives us a further insight into the secret doings of our ruling class.

France / Strike wave hits France

Workers are vigorously opposing their government’s attempt to rip up the French labour code.

Lay-offs and closures / Tata: the vultures circle

While the capitalist crisis continues to destroy workers' lives, our union leaders are still trying to push us down the blind alley of support for British imperialism.

Trade unions / Blacklisters cough up but justice still denied

Construction monopolies pay out token amounts to their victims in the hope of avoiding further exposure in the courts and media.

Pay and conditions / Union-busting at Topshop

Retail giant's outsourced cleaners protest against victimisation of activists.

Trade unions / Unite says no to Brexit

Britain's biggest trade union backs monopoly capital's view on the imperialist exploiters' club.

Health / Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’

One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.

Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

Industry / Industry matters: pay ‘rises’ belied by decline in real wages

Trade unions / Blacklisting rampant

There is increasing evidence that the practice of blacklisting has never gone away – and has been quietly condoned by governments of all parties.

Theatre / United We Stand

Culture, education and entertainment are brilliantly combined in Neil Gore's moving and insightful play.

Ukraine / Anglo-US imperialism ratchets up its bellicose stand against Russia

As inter-imperialist contradictions sharpen, some trade unionists are already campaigning for a defence of the imperialist fatherland.

Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?

Working-class history / Book review: Striking a Light, the Bryant and May Matchwomen

Louise Raw reveals the connection of these militant young East End strikers to new unionism, socialism and Irish republicanism.

Working-class history / The matchgirls’ strike of 1888

A landmark victory in working-class history, with much relevance to the many workers today who are once more unorganised and unrepresented by any union.