A workplace bulletin by Lewisham Hospital workers, for Lewisham Hospital workers.

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The Higher Education Service Group Executive of public sector union Unison will consult members on the latest pay offer from HE employers, with a recommendation to reject.

The offer is for a 1% increase. Unison, which has 40,000 members in the Higher Education sector, said that such an offer was “derisory” at a time when 4,000 workers in the sector still earn less than the living wage.

The union called for an “offer that reflects the high cost of living and the real terms pay cuts that staff have endured in recent years”.

Jean-Michel Krivine died on 14 May 2013, at the age of 80. He was the older brother of Alain Krivine - since the late 1960s the best known-leader of the French Trotskyist group called LCR and then NPA - and himself a Trotskyist, though long active in the French Communist Party.

This obituary by NPA leader Pierre Rousset, translated from http://www.npa2009.org/node/37308, gives a picture of the political culture in which Krivine operated as a dedicated and talented activist.

Over recent months, three revolutionary-left groups within Syriza, DEA, Kokkino, and Apo, have formed an alliance under the name "Rproject".

The Victoria branch of the construction section of Australia's big CFMEU union has been found guilty of contempt of court after it failed to comply with “restraining orders” issued to prevent it blockading construction sites in Melbourne in August and September 2012.

The sites (the Myer Emporium site and the Footscray site) were operated by construction company Grocon. CFMEU’s grievance related to issues of health and safety on the sites.

This year's TUC Disabled Workers' Conference roundly condemned government attacks on disability rights, and pledged action against cuts in jobs and benefits.

Meeting in London on 23 and 24 May, around 200 trade union delegates debated issues including work capability assessments, benefit cuts and the propaganda war against claimants.

On the first day, Conference adjourned an hour early to take part in direct action against the cuts, blocking Tottenham Court Road for an hour.

Salford TUC has launched an appeal fund for George Tapp, a retired construction worker who suffered head injuries and two broken legs when he was run over during an anti-blacklisting action in Manchester.

Police claim George climbed onto the car’s bonnet, but witnesses say the driver was “driving like a lunatic”, and that his actions seemed obviously deliberate.

Activists from the Blacklist Support Group and the Unite Construction Rank-and-File have been organising a series of actions around the country to highlight the issue of blacklisting in the construction industry.

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"New forces and passions" or "epoch of decline"

A debate from Workers' Liberty

On 25 May between 500 and 700 anti-racist activists, trade unionists, anarchists, and socialists marched against the English Defence League. (Police and local press report 300, organisers claimed 1,000 and, later, 2,000.) Between 1,000 and 1,500 EDL supporters marched in opposition to an Islamic faith school. (Police report 1,500, while the EDL claim 5,000-plus.)

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- Why Marxist Revival?
- Why internal democracy is a precondition for building an international organisation
- The politics of globalisation and imperialism today
- Modern imperialist domination and Islamic fundamentalism
- International report adopted by AWL conference, October 2012
- Iran: Two leadership crises, one revolutionary solution