Thousands of students have flocked to Respect meetings in recent weeks. These represent the largest campus meetings hosted by a political party for decades — and are a sure sign of the growing radicalism among students.
It’s not just universities that are seeing huge Respect meetings. Some 500 people poured into St George’s Hall on Tuesday of last week to attend Bradford’s biggest political rally in living memory.
The government's new childcare bill, published last week, is a huge step backwards, even from the inadequate plans that existed previously.
Some 26,000 lecturers in over 220 further education colleges were set to strike on Wednesday of this week in a pay dispute that goes to the heart of the lack of funding for predominantly working class education.
There was a lively demonstration of 200 people through Coventry last Saturday against job cuts.
Tower Hamlets tenants offer debate Some 400 tenants in Tower Hamlets, east London, heard genuine debate on stock transfer on Thursday of last week. And afterwards the mood was overwhelminlg against.
Ground staff at London Luton airport are set to be asked whether they would support moves for strike action after the T&G union discovered what it says is the exploitation of Polish workers.
Parents, teachers and support staff in Islington, north London, won a stunning victory against a proposed academy in the area in July.
Huddersfield technical college Caretakers at Huddersfield technical college completed their second week of strike action this week. They are fighting for a wage increase to get parity with school caretakers in the area.
Catch the bus from Brighton Nearly 200 people packed into the Friends Meeting House in Brighton on Friday of last week for a Campaign against Climate Change meeting to build for the climate march in London on 3 December.
Firefighters across the West Midlands struck on Monday night in an important dispute over new shifts and working arrangements.
Around 25 people demonstrated outside Holloway prison in London on Wednesday of last week. They came to protest over the death of Karen Ann Fletcher, 30, who died in October while in the prison.
