Rage at the cuts exploded last week, with protesters confronting councillors as they tried to vote through cuts.
Over 3,000 marched in the streets of Bristol on Saturday.
Some 2,500 people marched through Liverpool last Sunday in the city’s biggest anti-cuts demonstration so far.
There is a debate raging on the left about whether the National Union of Students (NUS) can ever be representative of the student movement.
A lively protest greeted GPs and hospital doctors as they arrived at the London regional meeting of the British Medical Association (BMA) on Thursday of last week.
Congress House filled with people discussing how the left can shape the capital during the Progressive London conference last Saturday.
Some 3,700 workers at Nottinghamshire county council were set to strike on Thursday of this week—the day the Tory council votes on its savage cuts budget.
In Kay Cutts’ office at County Hall, over her desk, hangs a portrait of her idol: Margaret Thatcher.
About 1,000 CWU union members and their supporters marched through Beeston in Nottingham on Saturday of last week (see right).
Members of the Aslef train drivers’ union at Arriva Trains Wales are set to strike on Monday of next week over pay.
Lorry drivers at Bawdsey Haulage in Felixstowe struck on Monday of this week demanding union recognition.
Bus drivers at Metroline in London are set to ballot for strikes from Friday of this week over a below-inflation pay offer.
