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Delegates applaud at Unison conference with large screens in the background

A New Era in UNISON?

A report from the rs21 Unison conference in Brighton

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

Photograph of José Maria de Almeida, a middle aged man, with tan skin and male pattern baldness. He wears a blue shirt with a white t shirt underneath. He holds a microphone and has his right hand raised, gesticulating as he talks. The background is a mixture of pink and blue lights.

The Price of Saying ‘Free Palestine’: Zé Maria and International Repression

Florence Open and Martin Ralph write on the incarceration of the Brazilian trade unionist, and how to show solidarity.

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.

A poster that says "Workers unite, Back to the Workplace!" with a red fist.

What future for Unite the Union?

The union’s direction on strikes, organising, Labour Party ties, and key political issues is at stake.

Report back from NEU Special Conference

A report from the NEU Special Conference on organising support staff.

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

Three days in Minneapolis

An eye witness report of resistance in Minneapolis

Minneapolis: Resistance surges amid crackdown

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

The Employment Rights Act: what it means and where to go next

To respond to the Employment Rights Act, workers must go on the offensive

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

Digital collage featuring a computer monitor with circuit board patterns on the screen. A Navajo woman is seated on the edge of the screen, appearing to stitch or fix the digital landscape with their hands. Blue digital cables extend from the monitor, keyboard, and floor, connecting the image elements.

Who designs the future?

As AI reshapes labour, designers confront a struggle over their creativity and the future of their work

Andrea Again together with two striking workers on a picket - standing in front of of a sign saying Wirral Evolutions. All there have clenched fists.

Left win in UNISON

The election of Andrea Egan as UNISON General Secretary has implications for the whole movement

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.

A chance to defeat Starmer’s most important union backer

The UNISON General Secretary election is a key battle for the whole of the left

Village Hotel workers on strike

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

The battle behind Unite’s belated action on Palestine

Unite members, including many employed in arms factories, have successfully challenged their leadership’s refusal to support action against Britain’s supply of arms to Israel.

Workers for a Free Palestine: organising against the genocide 

Worker outreach is an essential part of anti-militarist strategy, confronting Zionism and rebuilding the left