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12 September 2018
Guards move closer to beating driver-only operation
Attempts to move to driver-only operation have been pushed back
29 August 2018
East Dunbartonshire council workers back further strikes
Unison, GMB and Unite members in East Dunbartonshire council took four days of coordinated strike action at the end of June against the Tory and Lib Dem administration's cuts programme - including a major assault on workers' terms and conditions.
29 August 2018
Northern Rail guards continue fight against driver-only operation
Train guards in Newcastle, members of the RMT union, are participating in the ongoing battle against driver-only operation.
22 August 2018
Union bureaucracies, soviets and workers' power
Non-fiction: Workers control and workers management: 'Workers control and workers management: work in the unions' is the new book from Socialist Party member Ted Mooney.
25 July 2018
Recycling workers win right to sick pay
FCC recycling workers in Hull suspended their strike after FCC agreed to a sick pay scheme.
11 July 2018
Big victory for Wigan NHS strike against privatisation
In an outstanding example of how privatisation in the NHS is not inevitable, striking workers in Wigan have forced their NHS trust to drop all plans for outsourcing cleaning, catering and domestic services.
13 June 2018
NHS workers plan coordinated strikes across West Yorks against outsourcing
Four Yorkshire branches of health union Unison are balloting simultaneously for strikes against plans to transfer estates and facilities workers into separate companies - owned by NHS trusts, but outside the NHS.
23 May 2018
Victory: how school strike beat 'academy' privatisers
School workers in Newham, east London, stopped Avenue Primary School becoming a privately run 'academy' earlier this month
23 May 2018
First ever strike at TGI Fridays
Workers at TGI Fridays restaurants in Milton Keynes and Covent Garden, London, were on strike for the first time ever on 18 May
16 May 2018
A huge Socialist Party "Tories Out!" banner greeted 20,000 marchers
16 May 2018
May 1968: Revolutionary explosion as two thirds of workforce join strike
France, May 1968: week three: On Saturday 18 May 1968, General Charles de Gaulle, president of France, was forced to cut short his state visit to Bucharest.
16 May 2018
A week-long series of strikes by Lidl workers in Belgium has led to increased staff at stores across the country. A strike broke out at one store in Oostkamp over the dismissal of a sales manager, which also raised the issue of workloads.
16 May 2018
Strike at Tesco Dagenham for better pay
Workers at Tesco Dagenham distribution site are striking over pay from 10pm on Thursday 17 May. Following over a year of negotiations between Tesco and the retail and distribution workers' union Usdaw, bosses have refused to improve their initial offer which was worth less than 3%.
9 May 2018
China: Impressive, coordinated and daring crane drivers' strikes
Crane drivers in China's construction industry have taken strike action in dozens of cities across the country
18 April 2018
PCS rejects Acas offer - further strikes announced
PCS served notice to conciliation servuce Acas on 11 April to start a programme of industrial action if the employer does not offer to improve chronic short staffing, downgrading and moving jobs out of London
11 April 2018
Child poverty to hit 5m by 2021 - strikes can stop the cuts
"My children have grey skin, poor teeth, poor hair, poor nails. They are thinner... when you see them with children of the same age who are from an affluent area, they just look tiny."
4 April 2018
RMT strikes in Newcastle and London
Northern Rail workers strike to save the guard; DLR workers strike to defend conditions
28 March 2018
Strike action forces bosses to retreat but keep the pressure on
UCU members are on the cusp of victory - but not quite there yet.
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