Over 150 National Union of Journalists (NUJ) delegates gathered at the union’s conference in Southport last week.
Around 140 trade unionists packed into a joint union meeting at University College London (UCL) on Tuesday of last week.
Up to 300 workers and students from Leeds University lobbied a meeting of the university council on Thursday of last week as managers discussed plans to make £35 million worth of cuts.
The London Autistic Rights Movement held a public meeting on Wednesday of last week to discuss the government’s Equalities Bill and threatened cuts to disability benefits.
Some 400 people with disabilities, their supporters and carers protested outside Edinburgh’s city chambers on Thursday of last week.
Asylum seekers Lydia Besong and Bernard Batey are being deported to Cameroon – the country they fled from after being tortured.
Teachers in the NUT union at Norlington School, east London, are continuing their fight after three days of strike action.
Teachers in one of Coventry’s biggest secondary schools struck on Friday of last week in protest over rising workloads.
A powerful lobby of up to 40 people on Tuesday of last week urged Haringey council in north London to rethink its plans to demolish 130 sheltered homes.
Britain’s foreign secretary David Miliband has admitted that the eight years of Western occupation of Afghanistan has built an unstable regime that would fall without the support of foreign troops.
RMT transport union members on London Underground this week started a ballot for strikes over pay – just as Unite union members voted for action short of a strike over the issue.
The official inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war began its public hearings on Tuesday of this week amid a storm over leaked documents that show the backroom deals George Bush and Tony Blair made in the run-up to the slaughter.
