Mark Best

National Education Union (NEU) members at sixth form colleges have now taken four days of strike action – on 27 November, and 3, 4 and 13 December – over

Business as usual has quickly been restored for the UK civil service under Labour prime minister Keir Starmer.

Essential care workers organised in Unite the Union and employed by the Labour-run Plymouth City Council have taken strike action for the first time demanding that they are paid what they are owed.

Len Hockey Unite branch secretary, Barts Health Trust, east London

Fully fund services, kick out profiteers Give workers a decent pay rise Holly Johnston NHS trade union rep and Sheffield South East Socialist Party

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1303 Despite making it through to the end of 2024 without facing widespread strike action, the year ends

Mark Best, Socialist Party national committee This may not be the first Socialist newspaper you've read in 2024, but it is the last one published of the year.

The British state arrests climate protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, a recent study has found. The UK is second only to Australia in arrest rates for climate-related protests. 17% of climate protests led to arrests in the UK vs. 20% in Australia; the global average is 6.7%.

Mary Finch, Waltham Forest Socialist Party The damning government report on medical misogyny has once again highlighted the terrible state of women's healthcare.

With the same inevitability as the end of term, the Keir Starmer government's truce with schoolteachers seems to have come to a dramatic end.