The first national teachers’ strike in two years is for the future of education, reports Sadie Robinson
Up to 500 people attended the People’s Assembly recall conference in central London last Saturday.
The result of Glasgow residential care workers’ ballot on an improved offer from council bosses was due as Socialist Worker went to press.
Cleaners at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) were set to strike on Friday of this week.
Campaigners across Britain are preparing for a series of protests against the bedroom tax and benefit cuts.
NUT union members have won a victory at Gateway College in Leicester.
Elections for the NUT teaching union’s national executive committee open this week.
Workers at Lambeth College in south London are fighting bosses’ plans to sell off a college site in Brixton. The site has been earmarked to become a free school.
Left wing activists at London’s Kingston University last week won three part time student union positions and a position to be a delegate to NUS conference.
Some 30 mental health service users have occupied an NHS clinic in Cambridge to stop plans to shut it down. The protesters were in the second week of their occupation as Socialist Worker went to press.
The trial of Nicky Jacobs for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock heard evidence from a key prosecution witness this week.
Firms that blacklist workers should be blacklisted themselves according to a committee of MPs.
