Solidarity 3/202
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Unions representing over 800,000 teachers, lecturers and civil servants are set to take national strike action on 30 June against Government plans to radically attack their pensions.
Solidarity 3/202, 4 May 2011
RMT will strike to defend Tube reps
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RMT London Underground drivers will strike for two days over a period of a week in the week beginning Monday 16 May, and again in the week beginning Monday 13 June.
PCS: don't leave jobs as a makeweight issue
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The national executive of the civil service union PCS will put an emergency motion to its conference on 18-20 May, seeking permission to ballot members over pensions, jobs and pay.
Tindle strike
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Tindle Newspapers journalists are back at work after six days’ successful strike.
Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising and the Gombeen-men in power
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This year, again, on the 95th anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916 which triggered a series of events leading to Ireland’s war of independence, official celebrations in Dublin and elsewhere were low-key.
George Galloway: a fighter for Celtic fans?
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In his first electoral outing after being expelled from the Labour Party (Respect, 2004) George Galloway promoted himself as “a fighter for Muslims”.
Remembering Grunwick
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Having seen a link on Facebook, and knowing nothing about either the Grunwick dispute or Jayaben Desai, I went to the Tricycle Cinema in Kilburn last Sunday to learn all about them.
The isolation of Dublin
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We continue our series of articles by James Connolly about the 1913-14 Labour War in Dublin, and the power of the solidarity strike.
Stop ethnic cleansing in Essex
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Dale Farm, the UK’s largest traveller site, home to 1,000 people, is under imminent threat of eviction, by Tory-run Basildon council.