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Content about events and struggles in what is now the United Kingdom.

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Royal Mail: Stockport wildcat strikers return to work whilst national talks extended until Sunday

Several hundred workers at Stockport Mail Centre returned to work today having…

UK: Tube maintenance workers begin six days of strikes

The first of two 72 hour strikes by more than 2,300 workers at failed private maintenance firm…

Public pay: Now police call for right to strike

Hot on the heels of an illegal strike of prison officers, now police offices offered a below-inflation pay rise have demanded the right to strike…

A view of the remains of the four-storey factory the day after the explosion

Independent report into ICL plastics disaster finds health and safety regime 'dangerously dysfunctional'

On 11 May 2004, nine workers were killed and more than thirty-three injured in an…

Gerry Healy early on, sharing the stage with Ted Grant and Sid Bidwell

Revolution betrayed - the Workers Revolutionary Party and Iraq

Two articles from Solidarity on corruption in the Workers Revolutionary Party and its links with…

An elderly worker

TV Times 1-7 September 2007

This week's highlight is the start of a series exploring prejudices against older workers and jobseekers.

UK: Workers at Royal Mail contractors Romec strike

Following an overwhelming 12 to 1 yes vote for industrial action, engineers and admin workers are Romec are due to strike today over a sub…

UK: Prison officers in mass unlawful strike

Some 20,000 prison officers in England and Wales took illegal unofficial action on Wednesday 29 August against Gordon Brown’s public sector wage…

Manchester mental health workers on strike yesterday

Mental health workers on strike in support of colleague

Nearly 700 UNISON members in Manchester Community and Mental Health branch went on strike yesterday…

Holocaust denier David Irving

TV Times 25 - 31 August 2007

This weeks highlight exposes the sinister world of SS re-enactments in the UK.

Merthyr Tydfil riots

1831: Merthyr Tydfil uprising

In 1831, Merthyr Tydfil, iron workers struck against redundancies, rising prices and bailiffs, leading to several thousand workers involved in…

Metronet workers

Metronet works vote 95% in favour of strike action

Workers at the Tube maintenance consortium Metronet voted 95% in favour of strike action this week, as station staff on the Bakerloo line begin a…