Scotland鈥檚 largest city was brought to a standstill as women workers made history in Britain鈥檚 largest-ever strike over equal pay on October 24 and 25.
Care workers, cleaners and school dinner workers were among 8000 women council employees and contractors staging a two-day walkout in Glasgow.
They formed picket lines to demand back payments for being paid less than council workers in male-dominated departments.
The strike at two branches of McDonald鈥檚 in Britain was 鈥渏ust the start鈥, Labour鈥檚 shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on September 4. Speaking at a rally outside Parliament the day before, the shadow chancellor hailed the striking workers as an 鈥渁bsolute inspiration鈥.
Workers at the burger giant鈥檚 restaurants in Cambridge and Crayford, south-east London, downed aprons in protest at the harassment of workers and the victimisation of union members.
Jeremy Corbyn's successful leadership campaign team launched a new group of the left on October 7 to transform Labour into a 鈥渕ass movement.鈥
Called Momentum, it will be independent of the party leadership, but was welcomed by Corbyn as offering to 鈥減ut the people鈥檚 values back into politics鈥.
It will hold mass rallies and seek to organise activists inspired by Corbyn both inside and outside the Labour Party.