Police killed a man in Culcheth, Cheshire, last Saturday. Anthony Grainger was sat in a car when police shot him.
The National Union of Students (NUS) has called a national week of action against government attacks on education from Monday to Friday of next week. Many walkouts are planned for Wednesday.
Protesters exposed central London shops that exploit the government’s workfare scheme on Saturday. The protest was one of 38 around the country on a national day of action called by Boycott Workfare.
Mark Campbell, the UCU Left candidate in the union’s general secretary election, has won 27 percent of the vote.
Anti-workfare activists harangued Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith outside Tottenham town hall in north London this morning (Friday).
Over 250 students and their supporters marched in Edinburgh on Wednesday. The demonstration was called by Scottish Students Against Cuts (SSAC) in defence of a generation of young people under attack from the austerity measures being enforced by governments in Westminster and Holyrood.
A large meeting of British Muslims in London threw its weight behind the Syrian revolution last night (Wednesday). Over 400 mainly local people turned out for the meeting, which was hosted by London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel, east London.
Amanpreet Kaur is a Punjabi Sikh who is due to be deported today (Thursday) pending the outcome of a judicial review.
McDonald’s was once more the target for anti-workfare protesters tonight, Wednesday, as their campaign forced the Tories onto the retreat.
James Murdoch resigned as the head of News International today, Wednesday. Police officers told the Leveson inquiry into press standards that they felt unable to continue a search at News International headquarters because they felt intimidated.
The Tories are retreating over workfare—again. Tory minister Chris Grayling has announced he is scrapping benefits sanctions from his "work experience" scheme.
Campaigners held a noisy protest in central London this morning, Wednesday, against the Tories’ Health and Social Care Bill.
