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20 January 2022
10,000 tube workers vote to strike
RMT members working for London Underground have voted overwhelmingly for strike action
19 January 2022
S Yorks Stagecoach strike results in "huge pay win"
After three-and-a-half weeks of strike action, 560 Stagecoach bus workers across South Yorkshire have voted to accept what their Unite trade union has described as a "huge pay win" of over a £1-an-hour increase, amounting to a 10.7% rise
19 January 2022
Socialist Party members have continued to show support for striking bin workers in Coventry as the Labour council continues its campaign of disinformation and lies about bin workers' pay
19 January 2022
Tory vaccine sacking threat set to deepen NHS staffing crisis
86,000 NHS staff face the sack in April if they do not have the Covid-19 vaccine.
Photo: Kuhlmann MSC/CC
19 January 2022
Tories on the ropes - Build a workers' alternative
The future of Boris Johnson as PM hangs by a thinner and thinner thread, following the revelations of Downing Street parties and the backdrop of the cost of living crisis.
19 January 2022
No trust in Tories to keep us safe
For democratic workers' control of Covid safety: The self-isolation period after a positive Covid test has been reduced from seven days to five, with negative lateral flow tests on days five and six
19 January 2022
Employers use vaccine excuse to attack sick pay
Ikea has become the latest company to cut sick pay for unvaccinated workers who need to self-isolate because of Covid, and in some cases for workers who test positive.
19 January 2022
£299 million of PPE brought by the government during the pandemic has gone out of date. The early days of the pandemic were marked by health and care workers' struggles for face masks and other PPE. Now,
19 January 2022
Somers Forge workers continue pay strike
Workers at Somers Forge in Halesowen took their fourth day of strike action in their current dispute for a living pay increase - and also the fourth ever in the company's 155-year history!
19 January 2022
Waltham Forest bin workers in Unite and GMB unions protested on the steps of the town hall on 13 January against bad pay and conditions
19 January 2022
Interview: Telling the story of the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in: In June 1971, the privately owned shipyards of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders collapsed into receivership. But instead of accepting redundancy, the large workforce occupied the affected sites and began its famous
19 January 2022
Northern Ireland: Workers fight threatened closure of women's hostel
The sole women-only hostel in Northern Ireland for homeless women, those with addictions, mental health issues or suffering domestic violence, is facing closure on 27 February.
19 January 2022
Eyewitness account of workers' uprising in Almaty, Kazakhstan
In the following extract, Igor Ushakov, who serves on the Almaty editorial board of the left-wing online magazine Krasnaya Yurt, explains the events on 4-5 January in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty, where a working-class uprising against the regime took place.
12 January 2022
Super-rich get richer, while we can't make ends meet. Join the fightback!
The richest 1% of households were getting richer even before the pandemic, taking their average wealth to £3.66 million. The wealth gap has widened further since.
Coventry bin workers on strike, January 2022, photo by Dave Nellist
12 January 2022
Socialist Party members joined the picket lines of striking bin workers in Coventry fighting for better pay. January 2022
12 January 2022
10,000 tube workers vote to strike over jobs, terms and pension cuts
London Underground bosses refused to give assurances on jobs, pensions and working conditions.
12 January 2022
Kazakhstan: Working-class revolt only suppressed by massive mobilisation of troops
Kazakh state forces, backed by Russian paratroops, are enforcing a military grip in Almaty
12 January 2022
Solidarity with workers protesting in Kazakhstan
It's clear that the Kazakhstan government is feeling the heat following international coverage of the protests and repression there
12 January 2022
Weetabix workers defeat 'fire and rehire' and ballot on improved pay offer
The end of 2021 saw a ramping up of strike action by the Weetabix workers at Corby and Kettering factories
6 January 2022
Tories' cost of living squeeze - Build workers' fightback
This year is set to inflict more pain on working-class people as rising costs outstrip incomes, meaning real-terms pay cuts. The average pay deal last year was worth just 2%, and a survey of employers found they were only planning 2.5% raises this year.
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