Civil Enforecement and hospital workers stage walkouts.

By KD Tait Members of Unite the union have started voting to elect the general secretary of Britain’s most important trade union. The election comes at a critical moment for the labour movement. After the rout of the Corbyn movement, Labour’s leadership is determined to complete the purge of the left’s influence within the party. […]

Howard Beckett is the sole candidate not advocating a retreat from the struggle over the political leadership of the Labour Party.

Four candidates will be on the ballot paper.

Workplace activists can lead the fight for 15%.

No candidate is proposing genuine rank and file strategy.

Fighting back against "fire & rehire".

Even more employers will use this tactic to attack terms and conditions.

Manchester buses, school students and British Gas

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

State surveillance, political trials and blacklisting

The rank and file must take control.

Whats kicking off and where.

Court rules Uber drivers are workers.

A brief respite is being eroded by the government's failure to adequately fund safe schools

The left should agree a common slate for NEC elections based on based on building a rank-and-file led class struggle union

The new CWU-Royal Mail deal sells our conditions too cheaply.

By KD Tait Following a mass online briefing attended by tens of thousands of education workers at the weekend, trade unionists are taking action to prevent the unsafe reopening of schools. This action is now essential because the government’s insistence on keeping schools open was a major contributory factor to the spread of a more […]

By Jeremy Dewar Novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-19 continues to test the world’s governments. None more than Boris Johnson’s Tory administration, it seems, with the recent discovery of a new strain, variant B117 in the south-east of Britain, which is proving to be 56% more infectious than previous iterations of the virus. Not only is this variant […]

Unison General Secretary election.

We need to prepare to take action.

Companies that cut jobs should be nationalised without compensation to their owners

Vote Paul Homles for Unison General Secretary

Take this motion to your trade union or Labour branch.

Smokescreen of financial difficulties.

Threats of large-scale redundancies among outsourced catering staff at Birkbeck have sparked a campaign of resistance from Birkbeck Unison.

Postal workers being lined up for a defeat

Passed by Lambeth Unison

How Marxists explain the causes and consequences of unemployment under capitalism

GMB must press ahead with strike ballot.