Campaigners are fighting to save Sure Start centres and Early Years nurseries across Manchester, which are all set to be closed.
Remploy workers joined the march against the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham last Sunday (see page 4). They were protesting against plans to close 54 Remploy factories.
The trial of six activists arrested in Zimbabwe for showing news footage of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt began last Thursday.
Workers at the firm Capita, which issues TV licences, are this week balloting for strikes.
Tug workers in the Shetland Islands have voted by 98 percent for industrial action over job cuts and attacks on conditions.
Some 100 people demonstrated in support of the cleaners at Senate House, University of London, on Wednesday of last week.
NUJ members at Newsquest Cheshire and Merseyside took part in two days of strikes last week against compulsory redundancies.
The disaster at the Gleision mine in South Wales began when miners blasted underground.
Travellers who live at Dale Farm in Essex celebrated as they won a last-minute court injunction delaying their eviction this week.
Constant & Co, the "specialist" bailiff firm that is ready to evict Dale Farm Travellers, promotes itself with racist language.
The United Nations (UN) was set to vote on official recognition for a state of Palestine this week.
The Tories are taking an axe to working class Britain. Every day sees jobs decimated, services slashed and thousands of lives wrecked.
