Around 500 adult learners lobbied their MPs on Wednesday of last week and questioned cabinet secretary John Denham about the cuts to over 1.5 million national learner places.
Striking community service workers in Glasgow report that they are "still solid and still motivated" as they enter their ninth week on indefinite strike.
Workers in East North East Homes Leeds struck on Tuesday of this week in defence of John McDermott, their Unison union convenor who is a member of the union’s national executive.
Around 1,500 people marched through Ayr last Saturday to protest against the cuts being imposed by the local council.
Over 100 people packed into a meeting on Wednesday of last week on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets in defence of Debbie Cordrey, a sacked Unison union steward at Island Homes.
More than 200 people attended the inquiry held by the House of Commons council housing group, which took place in a series of packed committee rooms in parliament on Wednesday of last week.
There is growing momentum for a one-day general strike in Ireland.
Workers from the Waterford Crystal factory occupation received a very warm welcome when they visited Glasgow last week.
Government plans to privatise Royal Mail have the potential to become for Gordon Brown what the poll tax was to Margaret Thatcher.
The intense mistrust of privatisation coupled with anger at the rich who are pocketing state bailouts, means that there is a groundswell of support for the campaign against the post sell-off.
Anger with New Labour among postal workers has reached record highs since the privatisation announcement.
