The NUT teachers’ union wants to hold a national ballot for strikes to defend pensions.
The police, the media and most politicians are carrying out an offensive against student protesters who occupied the Tories’ Millbank HQ.
Teachers at St Aloysius School in Islington, north London, are expecting to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
Three students have so far been arrested on suspicion of dropping a fire extinguisher from the roof of Millbank Tower.
NUT members in Hackney, east London, are fighting moves to turn all three remaining non‑church comprehensives into academies.
Some 200 students occupied a lecture theatre at Sussex University on Monday of this week.
Around 80 people came to a meeting on Thursday of last week to oppose the closure of Moreland school, in Islington, north London.
Lee Hall is a playwright, well known for writing the film Billy Elliot. He has signed the statement supporting the Millbank protesters and spoke to Socialist Worker about his excitement over the student demonstrations:
Plans to ballot British Airways cabin crew on a new offer in their ongoing dispute have been halted—because their union reps refused to recommend it to them.
Students are now preparing for "Day X"—a national day of action against education cuts on Wednesday of next week.
Construction worker Phil Willis won a landmark legal judgement against blacklisting on Wednesday of last week.
A flurry of action is planned to build on the 50,000‑strong student protest in central London last week.
