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A landscape image of United Kimpton Workers striking outside the Kimpton Clocktower hotel, a red brick building with scaffolding covering it. Red flags can be seen amonst the crowd. On the entrance arch, three flags can be seen - the butcher's apron, a progress pride flag, and a black clocktower flag.

Video | On strike at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel

Ish T-N spoke to Unite members at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester out on strike against their employer InterContinental Hotels Group UK

Video | Support the strikers at the Institute of Cancer Research

Members of staff at the Institute of Cancer Research are currently on strike

UNISON flags. Keywords: UNISON general secretary election

Video | NHS strikes against overtime pay cuts

Ian Allinson interviews UNISON members at the Royal Oldham Hospital

Unite’s General Secretary election

Who to vote for and what to do after the election

a negative of a bunch of palantir keychains

Palantir in the NHS: How to fight the surveillance state at work

Workers can defeat Palantir by refusing to use the platform, building alliances with patients, and coordinating multi-union strike action

Pickets with banners and supporters including Green MP Hannah Spencer

Video | Manchester AQA strikers speak out

UNISON strikers at AQA in Manchester talk about their dispute.

five pamhplets of the general strike pamphlet by harry wicks, new edition printed by Revolutonary History.

Review | Harry Wicks: The General Strike

A century on, the ‘thunderclap without warning’ of 1926 still carries a lesson: the greatest threat to a militant working class is the leadership standing above it

One hundred years since the General Strike

The 1926 General Strike began one hundred years ago today.

Making use of the Employment Rights Act

A workplace activist’s guide on how to use the new Employment Rights Act 2025 to build worker power beyond the legislation itself.

The Unite officers dispute

The issues that lie behind the imminent strike of Unite Regional Officers.

Image of NEU members protesting with a white banner that says 'Value Education! Save our schools'

Winning a Generational Settlement for Education

rs21 Educators put forward their view that every educator in the NEU should help build the biggest yes vote for action.

Pigeons, pickets and pay demands

A report from the first day of the London Museum worker’s strike

Review | How to win a strike

How to Win a Strike, is a rough guide for activists and striking workers.

Minneapolis: Resistance surges amid crackdown

Joe Allen examines the violence in Minneapolis and the burgeoning to resistance to it

Tate workers on strike

Workers across the Tate Museum’s five sites have been taking strike action

Interview | Cinema workers’ strike in Glasgow

Vue cinema workers in Glasgow are on strike

Rockstar workers assembled on the pavement outside the Rockstar building on Holyrood Road

Support the sacked Rockstar workers

Rockstar workers are fighting for their jobs after 31 were sacked by the video games company

Photograph of a crowd of people, at the front is a red and white sign reading in block capitals 'STOP GENOCIDE'

How Italian dockers disrupted the Israeli war machine

In September, Italian dockers refused to work on ships in the Israeli supply lines

Crowd of bus strikers at Rochdale interchange

Strikes hit Greater Manchester buses

Most buses in Greater Manchester have been cancelled as coordinated strikes have hit eight depots of three bus companies.

Block everything: the struggle in France

The Bloquons tout movement in France has brought students, workers and activists together in blockades and strikes

Village Hotel workers on strike

A report and audio track from an interview with strikers at the Glasgow Village Hotel

5 sites, 1 day - 6am, 25 July - Birmingham - B'ham Bin Workers Megapicket 2

Birmingham bin strike: show your support against Labour’s austerity

The bin workers are standing up to Labour’s austerity policies – support this crucial strike.

Reflections on organising in the retail sector

A look back at a 2022 dispute involving USDAW staff who were members of the GMB union

Educators’ pay 2025: painting over the rot

The case for a ballot, a strike and a different vision of education.

Bin workers on the picket line

Interview | On strike with Birmingham bin workers

A striking bin worker speaks about their fight to protect their pay.

Struggle and Strategy in the Platform Economy

As workers in the platform economy fight back how can sporadic, dispersed strikes be turned into a sustainable movement?

Striking drivers hold a banner that says Fair Pay Now

May Day private hire drivers strike

Private hire drivers around Britain and internationally took strike action on 1 May

Scottish water Van parked by the Joppa Pumping Station

Interview with Scottish Water strikers

Some of the women on the Glasgow picket line spoke to rs21 about their strike

Fighting for union recognition in Sheffield

Unite members at the Veolia waste plant in Sheffield have been on strike for eight months for union recognition

UCU pickets outside an entrance to Dundee University

University crisis – Dundee UCU fights back

How the UCU strike in the face of the threat of massive job losses at Dundee University has shifted the agenda