More than 100 teachers attended the Education for Liberation conference in London last Saturday.
Around 50 Essex university students joined protests on Monday of this week to demand the reinstatement of six student union staff who have been sacked.
Over 200 workers packed into a UCU union meeting at Leeds university last week and voted overwhelmingly to back a ballot for industrial action against cuts. They also voted to show no confidence in the vice‑chancellor, Michael Arthur.
Lecturers in the UCU union at Barnsley College are set to begin a three-day strike on Friday 27 November in their dispute over the regrading of lecturer posts.
A three-day strike at Fujitsu Services was called off last week after the IT company agreed to extend consultations with the unions over pensions and redundancies. But workers remain committed to taking action to defend their conditions.
A determined meeting saw lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, and their supporters, gather in central London to oppose homophobia on Tuesday of last week.
Joe Glenton, the British soldier who has refused to return to fight in Afghanistan, is to face a military hearing this week after being arrested and detained for speaking out against the war.
The western city of Herat is seen by many as the most stable and functioning in Afghanistan.
The governments of Gordon Brown and Barack Obama are both in the grip of a growing crisis over Afghanistan.
Striking refuse workers in Leeds are getting more determined by the day as they enter their 11th week of all-out, indefinite action.
Bullying managers trying to rip up longstanding agreements with workers. Bosses trying to impose harsh new contracts without union agreement. Workers told that they have to take job and pay cuts, and accept that they won’t be getting the pension they’ve been paying into for years.
Three Hundred refuse workers in Brighton have won a significant victory by striking against the council’s attempt to slash their wages using "single status".
