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.

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.

An AWL bulletin for the TUC demonstration at the Tory party conference in Manchester, Sunday 29 September.

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The crisis of Stalinism has opened the way for a regroupment and reunification of the socialist movement, especially in the United States.

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 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.

On 1 October, members of teaching unions NUT and NASUWT will strike for one day in about one third of the country — including Yorkshire, the Midlands, and the Eastern region of England.

This motion was passed by the Central Line East branch of the Rail, Maritime, and Transport union (RMT), and endorsed by the RMT's London Transport Regional Executive. Could your union branch pass a version adapted for your industry?

Unite members in the Ineos oil refinery in Grangemouth are voting on whether to take industrial action in defence of senior shop steward Stevie Deans. Unite is calling for a ‘yes’ vote.

Stevie is chairperson of Falkirk Labour Party. He was suspended in June after national party officials raised allegations that Unite in Falkirk had signed up people to be party members without their knowledge and had forged their signatures on direct debit instructions.

On Ed Miliband’s instructions, the dossier containing the allegations was handed over to the police.

The shadowed pack in skulking gloom
Are poised for brief affray,
And mark the peaceful, sleeping home
Like carrion beasts of prey . . .
No hint of mercy in their act
A sudden burst of flame,
The faggot flung from out the dark
From whence their courage came . . .
This is the bravery of their deed—
A father and his dead;
While cringing justice mocks its name
And bows its craven head . . .