The pandemic has exacerbated existing issues surrounding representation amongst junior researchers, who are facing this crisis without any basic rights or safety net. But UCU members are organising a fightback.
The UK culture industry has been destroyed by the pandemic. Whilst big business has been lavished with handouts, the Tories have turned their backs on theatres and music venues. To save the arts, we need nationalisation.
Civil servants have played a key role during the pandemic, ensuring furlough money get to those in need. Socialist Appeal spoke with PCS President Fran Heathcote about the struggles facing union members.
Teaching unions have forced the government to U-turn on their reckless plan to reopen schools. The labour movement must remain vigilant, and fight to ensure schools are safe to return to in September.
Council workers in Tower Hamlets are starting three days of strike action this week, in response to attempts to impose worse conditions on staff. The whole labour movement must fight these attacks.
The dire situation for workers in the face of the bosses’ attacks has sparked a rise in trade union membership in the UK. With Labour shifting right under Starmer, we need organisation and militant action to fight for workers’ rights.
Manufacturing and industry in Britain is set to be decimated by the pandemic, Brexit, and the crisis of capitalism. Union leaders are urging the Tories to save jobs. But instead of pleading, the union movement must organise and fight.
An attack on jobs is on the horizon in higher education. The UCU has launched a campaign in response. But members must pressure the leadership to ensure a militant fightback is carried out.
In the middle of the pandemic, delivery workers who transport important medical samples – including COVID-19 – are under attack from employers. But the couriers are fighting back.
A bitter struggle has been brewing inside Royal Mail for a while. But for now, the bosses are in retreat, fearful of provoking an explosion amongst postal workers. CWU members must use this opportunity to prepare for future battles.
As businesses begin to reopen, Roy Bentham of the Blacklist Support Group explains how there never was any lockdown for construction workers. The union leaders have dragged their feet. We must fight to #ShutTheSites!
In our latest episode of Marxist Voice, we’re joined by Natasha Sorrell – an activist with the National Education Union – to discuss the current war being waged against teachers by the Tories and the right-wing press.