Catering staff and cleaners at the Forest private school in Waltham Forest, London, members of Unite the Union, are on strike from 28 September to 2 October after their employer, the Compass Group, proposed changes that would mean a loss of pay of 13.5% per year!
2026 is not 1936, but anyone serious about confronting the far right and driving them from our communities must learn the lessons of Cable Street.
On 25 September, German students will again be walking out of lessons against military conscription and rearmament. This is following ongoing youth strikes which have already mobilised 55,000 students in recent months.
The first parliamentary test for the so-called ‘Burnham bounce’, in Holborn and St Pancras on 8 October, is likely to be as favourable a terrain as the new prime minister will ever face.
Angela Rayner posted on social media that: “For too long communities have seen their high streets declining around them… We’re putting powers into the hands of communities to crack down on everyday eyesores that blight town centres.”
Around 200 people attended the national anti-austerity summit hosted by Hackney’s new Green council on 9 September. From a show of hands, roughly a third of those gathered were councillors.
Unite members at Arriva London North have won a huge victory following strike action to protest the appalling temperatures on buses.
Lambeth Trades Council was visited by Lambeth Green councillor and cabinet member Michael Chessum on 7 September, unveiling the Green council’s new anti-austerity campaign, set be launched two days later.
What a brilliant, enthusiastic bunch of young workers, striking for the modest demands of a real living wage — and water! This is joint action by PCS and Prospect unions, fighting for pay that keeps pace with the cost of living,
A massive water main had erupted earlier in the week, turning one street into a raging torrent, flooding people’s homes, while Thames Water is imposing a hosepipe ban. So, on our Socialist Party campaign stall, we used the petition calling for nationalising water and energy.
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