International

Firefighters from across Europe met in London for the annual European Federation of Public Services Union (EPSU) Firefighters’ Network on 2 and 3 December. The event took place in TUC Congress house. Delegates discussed issues affecting their fire services and agreed a working plan for the network...

When a multinational corporation threatened to close a factory in Italy, workers fought back with a plan for a green transition solution. Their rank and-file collective explains why their vision matters to workers everywhere. In October a UK trade union delegation visited our former GKN auto...

Vital humanitarian aid is stuck in customs while Palestinian firefighters face injury through lack of PPE. Helen Hague reports A fully equipped fire appliance, laden with fire kit and medicine, left Scotland bound for the Israeli-occupied West Bank earlier this summer. It was the latest donation...

The announcement of a general election while this year’s FBU annual conference was in session emphasised its crucial role FBU annual conference 2024 took place between 22 and 24 May in Blackpool, with hundreds of delegates, observers and guests in attendance. Since the previous year’s gathering...

The Fire Brigades Union has advised members not to be involved in law enforcement activities, following protests at a drone factory in Leicestershire this May. Activists identified the site as linked to Elbit Systems, an arms company supplying the Israeli military with weapons, and occupied the...

Uri Weltmann, national field organiser of the Standing Together movement More than eight months after the 7 October Hamas attacks and Israel’s reaction, our country continues to be engulfed in pain and misery. The death toll in Gaza approaches 40,000 people – including around 15,000 children – and a...

Our new column looking at developments in the jobs of firefighters Though once relatively rare in the UK, the strength and number of wildfires in recent years has increased dramatically, rising to nearly 24,000 in 2022, double the number of the previous year. Due to the large spike in grass and...