Financial Times strike threat, activists oppose developers, lobby over libraries, Muslims condemn cops, defend the right to protest
A lecturers’ strike is set to hit further education colleges across England on Tuesday 10 November. The bosses’ Association of Colleges has recommended a pay freeze for 2015/16.
NUT union members at Listerdale Primary School in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, were set to begin industrial action over workload this week.
Rowley Owls Nursery bosses in the West Midlands suspended a nursery manager on Friday of last week.
The final meetings in the Students not Suspects tour were held at Manchester and Strathclyde universities last week.
Feminism in London brought together up to 1,000 people for a weekend conference last Saturday and Sunday.
Pro-choice activists demonstrated in solidarity with women attending a Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Ealing in west London last Saturday.
French cops cracked down on refugees in Calais last week. They arrested at least 150 people and flew them to detention centres hundreds of miles away.
The House of Lords vote to delay tax credit cuts shows the Tories are far from unstoppable, says Judith Orr
Momentum, the new organisation launched by Jeremy Corbyn supporters, held its first meetings last week.
The junior doctors’ revolt is growing. The British Medical Association (BMA) announced last week that it would ballot its 56,000 members for industrial action.
Angry protesters gathered at Downing Street last Saturday over continuing delays to the release of Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British resident in Guantanamo prison.
