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Nigerian government unleashes massive repression after #EndHunger protests

Mass arrests in Nigeria target those involved in #EndHunger protests.

Ireland today: interview with Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann

Pat Stack talks to Derry based socialists Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann

Sussex Academy Trust faces strike from angry workforce – UBAT strike report

Lou Hayton reports from one of the picket lines where Sussex NEU members are fighting back against the University of Brighton Academies Trust

Green class struggle: workers and the just transition

Climate politics is not the playground of distant elites, but a field where collective action is decisive.

1974 – an end and a beginning

Willie Black looks back at 1974. A pivotal year both in Britain and across the world – high points of workers’ struggles, but also the beginning of five decades of neo-liberalism

teachers with a banner saying 'Pay Up, Save our schools'

Teachers’ union conference battles over pay strikes

Palestine, pay cuts and protest: NEU activists challenge the union’s bureaucracy in the face of another expected real terms pay cut.

The Courtaulds strike of 1965 – Black workers fighting back

Sue Sparks of the IS History Project uncovers the history of one of the first Black workers’ strikes against racism in the 1960s. 

Here We Go! Forty years on from the outbreak of the Great Strike

Forty years ago today British miners began industrial action in what became the longest and most bitter strike of the twentieth century. Here Brian Parkin, a former Research Officer for the National Union of Mineworkers, gives a brief introduction to this pivotal strike.

Resisting the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act

Ian Allinson discusses the ways workers can resist the government’s latest repressive anti-union legislation.

Striking workers holding placards

Labor’s Upsurge and the Search for Workers’ Power

Five hundred thousand workers were on strike in the USA at some point in 2023. Kim Moody explores how the strikes have helped to build power and what to expect in the year to come.

What’s going on in Unite? | Part 1

A Unite activist assesses Sharon Graham’s leadership of the union. Part 1.

Strikers at the UAW picket line

Let them eat steak: voices from a UAW picket line

Dana Cloud reports from a United Auto Workers picket line at a G.M. parts distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.

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‘Troublemakers at Work’: Why trade unions need a militant rank-and-file

‘Troublemakers’ brought trade unionists and activists together to discuss the importance of a militant rank-and-file.

Popular protest and labour insurgency in Iran

A Tehran-based activist assesses the movement, and the under-reported role of workers’ struggles in the wider street mobilisations.

This is a war against the studios – interviews with picketers in Hollywood

Interviews with striking actors and writers in Hollywood.

School strikes: results and prospects

The tragedy of ending the dispute now is squandering the momentum and resolve we have built.

Image is a close-up of a crowd holding a variety of union flags including PCS and RMT, with placards saying "Protect our right to strike" and "Defend the Right to Strike". The people in the shot apear diverse in age, gender and race. In the centre of the shot, a person in a yellow shirt with the word 'RESIST' on it raises their left fist.

‘Lack and longing’: an interview with Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever

Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever answer questions about race, nation, working class struggle and the breakdown of Britain’s democratic settlement.

Why is the NEU recommending a bad deal?

rs21 teachers explain what has happened in the NEU and what we can do about it.

School strikes: we must escalate to win

Teachers’ pay – escalate to win in the autumn!

A World to Win: rs21 All Member Assembly report

rs21 organised A World to Win as part of our All Member Assembly. We discussed the new right, climate breakdown and the strike wave.

a large crowd of people at May Day rally, with different union banners

What is the potential for rank-and-file organisation today?

There is renewed interest in rank-and-file organisation, but confusion about what this means and what is possible.

School strikes update: what we need to do to win

The NEU has called new strikes in England on 5 and 7 July in pursuit of their pay claim. Here’s how we win the dispute.

Fighting on for higher pay in the NHS

As junior doctors in the BMA prepare for three days of strike action this week, the pay fight isn’t over across the health service.

The Saramago dispute, Glasgow 2023

The Saramago dispute: hospitality organising in Glasgow

An interview with the workers who organised.

Intersectional organising wall-to-wall at Rutgers University

Tempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and union leader Deepa Kumar about how the unions united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the USA’s higher education labour movement. This interview first […]

Uprising in France: the urgency of coordination from below

As the wave of revolt against pension reform in France continues, Clément Mouhot writes about the latest stage of the movement. On Thursday 13 April, France erupted again with the twelfth “journée d’action” (day of action) in the ongoing movement against President Macron’s pension reforms. All the unions, united in the so-called “intersyndicale”, put out […]

crowds march in London with a big heart shaped NEU balloon

NEU annual conference

Pay strikes, support staff, Ofsted, and Prevent: rs21 members cover the key debates.

NEU demo

Prepare for more school strikes

We need more than this offer – and a better deal can be won.

a large picket with a banner reading 'UCH Nurses say Pay Rise Now'.

Reject the health pay deal!

What’s the deal? Rob M argues NHS workers have to keep fighting to win more.

Hunt’s budget – comfort for the rich, crumbs for us

Jeremy Hunt claimed he was delivering a budget for growth, but as Jonny Jones explains, for most of us it means worsening living standards.