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UK: 2 million strike to save their pensions

December 1, 2011 By Paddy McGuffin

Tory attempts to belittle public-sector industrial action rang pathetically hollow.

UK general strike gets U.S. solidarity (with video)

December 1, 2011 By Scott Marshall

Here in the U.S., hundreds of union members and Occupy activists picketed the British Embassy in Washington and British consulates elsewhere.

Chicago PeoplesWorld.org readers celebrate growing fightback

December 1, 2011 By John Bachtell

They came to celebrate election victories in Ohio and across the country, the surging recall campaign in Wisconsin and the spreading Occupy movement.

In Britain too, public workers under fire

November 30, 2011 By Special to People’s World

Chancellor George Osborne careened ahead with disastrous economic policies as he launched a vicious new attack on public-sector workers.

General strike shuts down Portugal

November 28, 2011 By Emile Schepers

A general strike called by Portuguese unions against austerity measures imposed by international finance capital practically shut down Portugal last Thursday.