The University and College Union’s industrial action over pensions today (8th March 2018) completed 10 days of well attended picket lines by lecturers, researchers, admin…
The fight against austerity driven cuts by the ConDem coalition government failed. As we go into a fresh wave of resistance this piece takes a critical look at the UK anti-cuts movement.
Today RMT workers on CalMac ferries start an overtime ban followed by a 24 hour strike on Friday. This is a really big deal for…
Freedom Press editors have set up a website to advertise, promote and encourage the activities of anarchists during the N30 public sector strike. The website has…
A massive November walkout of up to 2 million public sector workers is now on the cards as the UK’s largest unions announce their intention…
Nearly a million workers will be striking and demonstrating on June 30th- workers in education, the civil service and the London underground. This is a…
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Germany: More than 250,000 take to the Streets
In June pupils and students in Germany took part in mass demonstrations, occupations and blockades in the “Education Strike 2009”. Protesters demanded e.g. the reorganisation of the very clumsily introduced Bachelor and Master structures, free access to and the democratisation of the education system, smaller classes, and the scrapping of the three tiered German school system (unsurprisingly a persons’ class background and nationality largely determines where they end up).
The following was sent to those who supported the Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) strike, under the banner of Workers of the World Unite: http://www.afed.org.uk/pdfs/lindsey_support_reply_letter.pdf To…
Thousands of workers across Britain have shown solidarity with construction workers sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery (owned by Total – the petroleum and energy supplier) expansion project by taking wildcat, or spontaneous ‘unofficial’, strike action against their bosses. Some may remember the Lindsey Refinery workers from the series of wildcats that took place earlier this year, wildcats which the mainstream media misleadingly portrayed as racist and nationalist due to slogans used by a minority of the workers, despite the fact that foreign workers had come out on strike with their fellow workers, and demanded to help unionise and increase the working conditions of these foreign labourers.
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