London’s firefighters have called off the strike they had planned for tomorrow (Friday) after bosses agreed to go to arbitration.
Video of the mass student march in Dublin on Wednesday 3 November 2010
Footage of and interviews with striking firefighters in London on Monday 1 November 2010
Defend Council Housing and tenant groups have called a lobby and protest outside parliament on Tuesday evening against government plans to cut housing benefit, erode secure tenancies and attack affordable rents.
Students at Goldsmiths College in south east London went into occupation today against the threat by government and university management to cut courses and funding in higher education.
More than 200 people crammed into Norwich City Hall’s council chambers for a meeting organised by Norfolk Coalition Against the Cuts meeting on Monday of this week. People even had to be turned away as the meeting was so full.
The third 24-hour strike by London Underground workers for jobs and safety has been as successful as the previous two.
The Tories and the right wing media are incensed at firefighters’ plans to strike on Bonfire Night.
Up to 1,000 pensioners took part in an angry rally outside parliament to protest at cuts to services and attacks on pensions on Wednesday of last week.
The fight for the general secretary of Unite, Britain’s biggest union with 1.3 million members, is hotting up as the election continues.
Postal workers in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, delivered a message of defiance to Royal Mail bosses who want to shut their mail centre by demonstrating last Saturday.
Leicester More than 400 people protested in Leicester on an anti-cuts demo organised by Leicestershire Against the Cuts last Saturday.
