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Airline and airport workers in Portugal, Spain, Belgium and Germany continue fight to reverse cuts to pay and conditions; educators begin pay and conditions strikes in France, Hungary, Poland and Serbia as new school term begins; refuse workers in Newham, London walk out and further bin strikes planned across Scotland as inflation hits low paid; protests in Soweto, South Africa against energy cut-offs to poverty-stricken workers making illegal connections to electricity grid

With the rise in trade union militancy, all sorts of rumours are circulating about establishing some kind of new left party. <strong>James Harvey</strong> reports

BA workers are opposing the provocative decision of the UK’s leading airline to reverse wage cuts for managers but not ground staff.

National strike in Belgian public sector against wage restraint and mass demonstration of 80,000 in Brussels; cabin crew at Ryanair, EasyJet and national carriers across Europe plan strikes over staff shortages and to reverse pay cuts during pandemic; Greek healthcare workers join national 24-hour strike over staff shortages leading to exhaustion; UK refuse collection drivers employed by scab-organising Coventry Labour council continue five-month pay strike; strikes by 1,000 outsourced cleaners working for UK train cleaning company over pay and conditions continue; 1,000 South African contract...

Thousands of metalworkers in Spain continue strikes for new collective agreements, joined by teacher walkouts over work conditions; thousands of German steelworkers and dockers at six ports join warning strikes over pay; construction workers building new Metro and transport workers in Thessaloniki, Greece demand protection from Covid-19 after outbreak; protests by workers in Palestinian West Bank as prices rise 30 percent since March; after isolating three-month strike at South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold, strike ends with unions pushing through sellout deal