The Socialist 20 October 2009

Postalworkers must win

Postal workers must win

Post - a battle that mass strike action can win

Afghanistan: Troops out!

Afghanistan - end the bloody occupation

Protests at the BBC: No to the far-right, racist BNP

WDL racists chased out of town

Sri Lanka protest: Shut down the prison camps!

Chinaworker.info journalist refused entry into China

Tommy Sheridan - a socialist fighter on a worker's wage

Laughing all the way to the bank

Fast news

FBU strike to defend fire service

Leeds bin workers fight on

Giant energy company hounds unemployed electrician

First bus drivers give bosses a 'fright'

400 jobs under threat at Leeds

Striking at London Metropolitan

Primary education: Report slams government policy

Union activists discuss pulling the plug on Labour

Conference on political representation

The Greatest Show on Earth: The evidence for Evolution

Hard Times by Charles Dickens, reviewed by Linda Taaffe

When Britain's spies backed Mussolini

Previous issues, etc

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Striking at London Metropolitan

Staff at London Metropolitan university held a two day strike on 15 and 16 October against management attacks. Last year management cut over 350 jobs and are now attempting to drive through another 100 to 200 redundancies. They are also planning to shut down the last of the remaining three nurseries.

Both Unison and UCU members were on the picket line and generally got a good response from students, some of whom offered to hand out the strike leaflets in their classes. The pickets were generally well respected by staff with few going into work.

These attacks are part of the general attack on university and college funding but the higher education funding council are demanding that London Met pays back £38 million in 'overpayments'.

A 100-strong lunchtime protest of staff and students took place outside the Tower building at the university.