Fiji: Public sector strikes grow amid death threats and intimidation A week long strike by 1400 nurses in Fiji expanded on Thursday as 1000 teachers and 300 public works…
UNISON education workers accept pay offer In a UNISON consultation, only four of fifty-three colleges reject 2% and 1% sequenced pay increases. Offer is "not quite bad enough," national…
Namibia: Miners in wildcat strike About 200 workers have gone on a wildcat strike in protest against the sacking of a union leader, disrupting production at the Exxaro Rosh Pinah…
Social care workers in Glasgow on indefinite strike 600 social care workers at Glasgow Council are about to enter their second week of strike action.
Royal Mail: Wildcat strikes spread as post piles up Wildcat stoppages at Royal Mail offices in Scotland have now spread to thirteen offices. Meanwhile 200 million items of post are now undelivered,…
Glasgow: 5,000 postal workers in unofficial action During the ongoing rolling strikes over pay and conditions, thousands of postal workers launched a wildcat strike in support of colleagues who…
NHS/UNISON health workers disappointed at low pay increase offer UNISON calls government pay increase "paltry." Improved offer expected; NHS ballot in August…
South Africa: diamond miners strike Miners in South Africa voted on Friday to launch an unlimited strike.
Man killed by Royal Mail scab Tragedy struck yesterday when one of 5,000 Royal Mail managers acting as scabs drove his lorry into an Astra van, killing one and injuring a…
TV Times - 28 July - 3 Aug 2007 This weeks highlight is a beautifully filmed portrayal of life under Franco in Spain in 1940.
Ending a war, inventing a movement: Mayday 1971 After SDS committed political suicide, and after the Jackson and Kent State shootings, one of the largest mass direct actions in US history took…
