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George Walker is a freelance journalist who writes on politics, culture, and philosophy.
Rent strikers at the University of Manchester aren’t just protesting the cost of living crisis – they are building a movement with trade unions to fight the marketisation of higher education.
This month, the Royal College of Nursing voted for its first national strike in over 100 years. Its members aren’t just fighting for themselves – they’re fighting for the future of the NHS.
Cutting bus services means punishing London’s most vulnerable for the pandemic. We need to fight to save the routes at risk – and to make the government fund the transport network properly.
Nurses were clapped and called ‘heroes’ during Covid, only to be slapped with a real-terms pay cut by the government. Now they are fighting back – and many are prepared to take to the picket lines.
Workers at St Monica’s care homes in Bristol and the South West are striking against fire and rehire. If they win, it could galvanise action across the care sector – and after the pandemic, care workers urgently need change.