By PCS activists Members of the civil servants’ union PCS will vote to elect their general secretary and assistant general secretary in November. The contest is between the ruling Left Unity faction candidates Fran Heathcote for general secretary and Paul O’Conner for assistant general secretary, and Marion Lloyd (Socialist Party) and incumbent AGS John Moloney […]

Palestinian trade unions have issued a call for solidarity from the international labour movement.

Fight for workers' control to stop UK complicity in the occupation

An unprecedented seven days of strike action over 16 days by consultants and junior doctors.

How can we build a rank and file movement?

Bosses walk all over deal as union leaders dither.

After months of residents complaining about letters going undelivered for days or even weeks, and workers leaking photos of frames full of undelivered mail, the regulator Ofcom has declared a review of the Universal Service Obligation. The USO is a legal obligation, held by Royal Mail, dictating quality of service requirements. For instance, 93% of […]

The Tories can't be trusted with the NHS. But there can be no holding back for Labour.

NHS: doctors coordinate

Over 800 workers at the homeless charity St Mungo’s have voted to end their three-month all out strike.

Under pressure from rank and file activity most of the revolutionary socialist groups turned left, workers power argues now is the time to unite all who want to develop a rank and file strategy.

The 2022-2023 strike wave, despite its impressive size, failed to achieve what was possible for workers. George Banks argues the rank and file needs organisation and unity.

An important step forward for grassroots trade unionists

CWU bureaucracy wins on rotten deal, but struggle won't end.

An Open Letter to union activists and the left on the next steps for our movement

PCS members follow the nurses' lead

Industrial disputes round-up

Rotten agreement will not provide job security and will weaken union.

By a CWU Rep The CWU leadership argues that if we had continued to strike Royal Mail would have gone bankrupt. The Tories would have taken it over, handed the parcel operation to the company’s international holding company IDS (until last year Royal Mail Group) and slashed the USO, losing tens of thousands of jobs. […]

800 striking workers at St Mungo’s homelessness charity have escalated to indefinite action, Jeremy Dewar reports.

Over half a million council and school employees are currently balloting for strike action to win a real pay rise. If successful, this would be the biggest strike yet in the wave of action over the cost of living crisis. But the task is huge.

The CWU leadership are running scared of their own members. Workers Power argues for a rank and file movement

The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.

Editorial June 2023, No. 404

No more delay, restore the strikes.

Rank and file workers should use the campaign to get organised.

Renationalisation is CWU policy -- let's fight for it

The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles

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 […]

By Jeremy Dewar STRIKES—ESPECIALLY a prolonged strike wave like the present—draw huge number of trade union members into activity, and expand the numbers of activists building for the action. There’s lots to do: organising workplace meetings to get out the message and identify new activists, phoning up members to check postal addresses and win the […]