Around 450 workers at the Shelter housing charity struck for 48 hours last week, and were were set to strike again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
Hundreds of workers at Blackburn with Darwen council are set to go on indefinite strike from Wednesday of next week over the implementation of a single status pay deal.
Teachers in the National Union of Teachers (NUT) at Withins School in Bolton are due to strike on Thursday of next week after 94 percent voted for action in a recent ballot.
Birmingham was shut down on Thursday of last week – no surprise in a city with 25,000 people on strike.
Workers from a range of unions joined a march in London on Monday to mark Workers' Memorial Day. The event remembers workers who have died due to accidents at their workplaces and presses the case for safety before profit.
Around 200 activists gathered in Cardiff last Saturday to protest against the development of a £14 billion military base in South Wales.
There were impressive marches and rallies in towns and cities across Britain on Thursday of last week.
Manchester Uni students occupy Over 200 students at Manchester university faced down lines of police to march around campus before occupying a building notoriously inaccessible to students on Tuesday of last week.
Any notion that the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan were "turning the corner" has evaporated in a week of bloody battles and growing instability.
Crucial elections take place on Thursday of this week in London and across England and Wales.
Around 100,000 people from across London and far beyond attended the Love Music, Hate Racism carnival in Victoria Park, east London, today.
The strikes on Fightback Thursday against Gordon Brown's public sector pay freeze were strong in all areas the country – as the size and vibrancy of the strike rallies called by unions demonstrates.
