About 70 Kingston University students and workers joined a protest on Wednesday of last week outside the board of governors meeting. They were protesting against the decision to close the University’s School of Surveying and Planning.
Around 250 people came to the launch meeting of Lancashire People’s Assembly on Tuesday of last week. Activists plan to launch local People’s Assembly groups across the region.
Over 100 pro choice activists marched through Cardiff on International Women’s Day to protest against anti-abortion group 40 Days for Life.
The family of Mark Duggan are to challenge police procedure used after his shooting in August 2011.
Over 90 people attended a meeting on Friday of last week held by Defend the Right to Protest and Soas Students’ Union on policing, the killing of Mark Duggan and deaths in custody.
Courts across England and Wales shut down today, Friday, as barristers and solicitors walked out in an historic strike.
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Sixteen scabs at Bentley colliery went on strike last week and asked for union representation.
The heroic struggle of the miners has been a source of inspiration to many and has led to hundreds of thousands of pounds being collected. But the most moving story of the strike must be that of the self-sacrifice shown by one unlikely group of supporters – prisoners serving life sentences in a Portsmouth jail.
The secret talks between the Coal Board and the NUM are a grave threat to the miners’ strike.
Yorkshire pit villages erupted on Monday when miners kept NCB area safety men out of pits in response to coal board efforts to engineer a back to work movement.
