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Over 100 refugees at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre near Heathrow airport have gone on hunger strike.
Match commander David Duckenfield has accepted responsibility for some of the police failings during the Hillsborough football disaster.
More than 20,000 marched through central London today, Saturday, demanding urgent action to tackle climate change. The Time to Act demonstration was called to put climate change at the top of the agenda ahead of the general election in May and the international talks in Paris in December.
Around 30 strikers from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) braved snow to demonstrate outside the ICO’s prestigious Data Protection Practitioner Conference in Manchester on Monday. As exhibiters and delegates arrived, union members chanted “Low Pay, No Way”.
Members of the largest health workers’ union, Unison, have voted by two thirds to accept a pay offer put to them after union leaders wrongly called off strikes last month. The turnout was 17 percent.
Up to 300 people came to a debate on Syriza and socialist strategy in central London on Wednesday of last week. The debate was organised by the International Socialism journal (ISJ).
Firefighters and 999 control operators in Essex struck on Sunday and Monday of this week over attacks on their jobs and the service.
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates are standing in May’s general election to offer an alternative to racism and austerity.
RMT union rep Clara Osagiede has outrageously been sacked by Interserve, the cleaning company used by London Underground.
Motorway maintenance workers ended their dispute with Amey on Monday of this week.
Short news stories on pay strikes by Met office workers, campaigning against blacklisting on Crossrail, Freedom Riders protest, day school on workers' resistance in China and solidarity campaigns with Palestine.
