The Socialist Teachers Alliance (STA) held its annual general meeting last Saturday. There was serious discussion of the prospect of major campaigns and strikes in the coming months.
Birmingham university strikes over pay Support staff at Birmingham University struck over low pay last Thursday and Friday.
Teachers in the NUT union at Kimberley School in Nottingham began a three-day strike on Monday of this week.
Tory education secretary Michael Gove plans to force Downhills Primary School in Haringey, north London, to become an academy.
Anti-racists were set to stand up to the English Defence League in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, this Saturday.
A Cambridge university student who was suspended for taking part in a protest against Tory minister David Willetts has had his punishment dramatically cut.
Workers at the RF Brookes pie factory in South Wigston, Leicester were set to strike again from this Thursday.
London’s fire authority has reversed its decision to privatise fire control in a victory for the unions.
More than 1,000 angry pensioners marched through Blackpool on Tuesday of last week at the start of the annual Pensioners’ Parliament.
Millionaire toff David Cameron paraded his hatred of working class people this week with a wide-ranging assault on benefits.
Some 300 people protested outside Downing Street last Saturday against the extradition of British citizens to the US for trial.
Journalists working for newspapers in Sheffield are preparing to ballot against job losses. Eight page production roles have been targeted at the Johnston Press division covering North Midlands and South Yorkshire.
