Living standards will fall by 7% in the next two years.

Editorial December-January 2022/23, No. 399

The government has picked a fight with nurses to hold public sector pay down and continue NHS privatisation.

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 […]

By Dave Stockton Dockers in Southampton have refused to unload containers diverted from Liverpool, in defiance of shipping companies and government ministers attempts to undermine the Liverpool strike. This act of solidarity shows both the possibility and necessity of defying the anti-union laws, which outlaw secondary action and allow bosses to divert work to non-striking […]

Will this strike wave, the biggest for 30 years, end in victory?

Editorial September 2022, No. 396

By R. Banks and Alex Rutherford The growing cost of living crisis and increasing public alarm at what it will mean pose the urgent need for a united front between all those affected by inflation. It needs to bring together union members and those who want to join a fighting union; the unemployed and underemployed; […]

Five hundred Liverpool dockers at England’s fourth-largest port, employed by MDHC Container Services, are to strike from 19 September to 3 October

With an ‘electorate’ of 160,000 geriatric Tory party members, 0.3% of the population chose the country’s leader.