Wandsworth council in south London plans to make unemployed people prove they are seeking work in order to qualify for council housing.
Over 10,000 students marched through central London last week against government attacks on education.
The Metropolitan Police’s new commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe brought his vision of "total policing" to London’s streets last week.
The Leveson inquiry into the News International (NI) scandal opened with claims that phone hacking had been widespread.
Marxist author David Harvey came to speak at the Occupy London protest camp outside St Paul’s cathedral last Saturday. He had previously written in support of the Occupy movement.
More workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike against the government’s assault on public sector pensions.
The GMB union has exposed the Tories’ lies over pensions. The government said that it had made changes to its reforms that meant some workers would be better off. The GMB says this is "misleading propaganda".
More than a thousand trade union activists have signed up for the Unite the Resistance convention to be held in London this Saturday.
I am a printer in Athens. For the past 20 years, our union hasn’t been that active. But the scale of the crisis has forced it to take action and become more militant.
The general mood in New York right now is of anger and resolve. Since the start of OWS we have been preparing for police eviction. So this was partially a surprise—but also really not. An emergency response network had been established via text messages, which immediately alerted the community.
Eric Fretz is a socialist activist based in New York who is involved with Occupy Wall Street (OWS). "I got word in the early hours of Tuesday morning that the OWS encampment had been raided by police," he told Socialist Worker.
The demonstration has now swollen to around 10,000 strong. It is noisy and militant, with delegations of students from across Britain, including Manchester, Glasgow, Sheffield, Oxford and Brighton.
