Two anti-Ukip events took place in Harlow, Essex, last Saturday after Ukip threatened to visit for a day of action.
Some 150 people marched from Strood Library to Rochester Library in Kent last Saturday.
Abortion Rights held a public meeting followed by its annual general meeting in London last Saturday. Some 40 activists took part.
Ten workers at London’s Chartered Institute of Environmental Health plan to strike for one hour this Thursday against a 1 percent pay offer. The action follows a one-hour walkout last week by the NUJ union members.
Members of Kirklees Axe The Tax lobbied the Tory MP for the Colne Valley constituency, Jason McCartney, at Huddersfield Town Hall last Saturday.
Christine Case, a 40 year old woman from Jamaica, died last Sunday while detained at Yarl’s Wood “immigration removal centre” near Bedford. Survivors of Yarl's Wood tell Socialist Worker about their experience and why all refugee prisons must be shut down.
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Solicitors and probation workers in England and Wales walked out on a two-day strike on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Workers in the probation officers’ union Napo struck over Tory plans to outsource 70 percent of the service.
A think tank funded by private health firms says people should be forced to pay a £10-a-month “membership charge” to use the NHS. The report from think tank Reform also says prescription fees should be higher and that people staying in hospital overnight should pay “hotel charges”.
Workers struck for three days at the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) from Tuesday to Thursday of last week. The strike involved members of the Unite union at sites in central London and Manchester.
Production workers at Bombardier are on strike against bosses’ attempts to force them to work 70 percent of their shifts at night time.
