The COP29 conference demonstrated the total inability of capitalism to solve the climate crisis. 

As the government prepares to cut civil service jobs, a crisis in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has left it unable to respond. Union branches are pushing for a Special Delegate Conference to resolve the leadership deadlock, but in the meantime no strikes or campaigns are initiated, allowing Labour’s attacks to continue unchallenged.  […]

Amazon is spending vast sums trying to defeat a campaign for trade union recognition.

By Rebecca Anderson UNLIKE OTHER public sector workers, the government’s 2022/23 pay offer to civil servants has not been improved by the wave of industrial action. Despite double-digit inflation, the government has refused to negotiate anything above the 2–3% pay rise that has already been imposed, not even offering the derisory one-off payments recently rejected […]

7.2 million people are on waiting lists for NHS treatment in England.

By Rebecca Anderson The 1st October Enough is Enough day of action in Leeds began at 10am when a thousand people joined the picket line at the train station, spilling out into the road as we listened to the RMT speaker explain why they are striking and won’t give up, followed by chants of “Enough […]

Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.

Boris Johnson's government suffered two significant by-election defeats on 23 June.

By Rebecca Anderson A hundred Unison members picketed Leeds University this morning, an impressive turnout to kick off their week of strike action. Libraries were closed and campus was encircled by a young, angry workforce demanding the university increase its pay offer to meet the spiralling cost of living. Earlier this year, Unison members at […]

The Energy Security Strategy has been met with widespread criticism.

PCS is deciding whether to ballot its members for strike action.

The reputation of the Metropolitan Police is in tatters - again.

The PCSC Bill must be defeated.

Day of action on 26 Feb.

The Civil Servants’ union PCS will hold a consultative ballot on pay and pensions between 14 February and 21 March.

By Rebecca Anderson THERE IS a real opportunity for coordinated strike action between two of Britain’s largest workforces: council workers, including school support staff, and hospital employees. If successful, it could bust the public sector pay freeze and build momentum in private sector struggles for substantial pay rises. Local government and school staff have been […]

By Rebecca Anderson THE COP26 climate conference of world leaders, meeting this month in Glasgow, has been billed as the ‘last best chance to get runaway climate change under control’. Each government will bring forward national climate plans under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Yet even before COP26 […]

By Rebecca Anderson THE TRIAL of Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard has shone a spotlight on violence against women and the inability of the police and judicial system to confront the problem. For months after Sarah’s murder the Metropolitan Police and Home Office dismissed any notion that there was a deep-seated prejudice […]

Healthworkers are being balloted over the government's insulting 3% pay offer

The government is actively undermining its own climate targets.

Coronavirus cases are surging once again.

Workplace activists can lead the fight for 15%.

Kids in cages are kids in cages, no matter which party puts them there.

Cross-union strike committees should be elected to unite the unions behind 15% and prepare coordinated action

The pay gap is widening.

New detention centre to open in Durham.

Wealthiest countries hoarding vaccines.

Against racism and neoliberalism.

2020 set new records for global heating. Is there an alternative?

Hounded to his death by Leeds police.