Post workers set to strike

The government has promised that the privatisation of Royal Mail will take place “within weeks”.

Shares in the privatised company will be offered to Royal Mail workers for a minimum spend of £500 (which can top up a free share bundle every worker will receive, with the total shares going to staff amounting to 10% of the business).

Anti-EDL: questions from Sheffield

On Saturday 21 September, around 300 EDL supporters descended on Lane Top in Sheffield.

There hasn’t been a suburban or estate-based demonstration by the racist English Defence League (EDL) in South Yorkshire before and the location brought a greater immediacy to the threat of violence to local Asian residents.

The excuse for this racist display was a plan to convert a disused pub, The Pheasant, into a mosque. The Muslim community group that had made enquiries about the property had already dropped the plan before the EDL protest.

Australian court hits protestors

The Victorian Supreme Court has issued wide-ranging injunctions against community protestors opposing the development of a McDonald's restaurant in Melbourne's eastern suburbs.

The court decision echoes the legal proceedings against Brisbane trade-unionist and activist Bob Carnegie for his part in supporting a community protest by workers at the Queensland Children's Hospital construction site in August-October 2012, and could serve as a template for employers seeking to remove unlawful pickets in the future.

Threat of strikes forces bosses' climbdown at Liverpool University

On 7 June, the University of Liverpool ended normal negotiations on a new harmonised contract for professional, administrative and specialist technical staff and announced that S188 dismissals [mass redundancy notices that bosses use to sack and re-engage workers on worse terms and conditions] would be given to 2,803 staff to get their way over scrapping TOIL.

'Prudence' or Cold Counter-Revolution? The 'Gomulka Way' in the Polish Revolution

In Hungary the fight was clearly, in the eyes of the world, a struggle between the united Hungarian people in revolution versus the Stalinist totalitarian power resting on Russian tanks. But in Poland the nature of the contending forces and the question of who is on which side have been far more obscured in the common view.

The Greatest Blow for Peace: The Revolutions Impact on The West and the War Danger

The Hungarian and Polish revolutions of 1956 mark a new period not only in the straggle for socialist freedom against Stalinism, but also in the fight against war and the danger of war.

Its impact is not only on the underpinnings of the Russian empire but also on the bases of the Western capitalist war alliance.

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