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Reports round-up - rage at arms bosses’ feast

Every year the arms trade holds a fancy dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London

Education round-up - teachers vote on pay fight

An indicative ballot of NEU union members for action over pay and school funding was due to end on Friday this week

Students organise to kick the racists off campuses

Students and lecturers at three universities are organising to drive racism and bigotry off their campuses.

Meadow Foods strikers say, ‘We want more than crumbs’

Workers at Meadow Foods are fighting over pay.

Hundreds join Grenfell Silent Walk as safety work on blocks slows down

Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire and their supporters took part in the first monthly Silent Walk of 2019 on Monday evening.

EIS union members plan college strike in Scotland over pay

Further education lecturers across Scotland were set to strike on Wednesday this week over pay.

Striking home care workers take to the streets in Birmingham

Striking homecare workers in Birmingham are taking their fight against the Labour-run council to the city’s residents.

Revolt in Zimbabwe against austerity and dictatorship

Workers and the poor are staying away from work, demonstrating and fighting the police

Protesters across the US defy Trump’s federal shutdown blackmail

Protesters across the US defied president Donald Trump’s attempt to force politicians to push through £5 billion in funding for his infamous border wall.

Plugging a brewing revolt

100 years ago the sale of alcohol was banned in the US. It’s a story of profit-thirsty booze barons, ruling class paranoia and fermenting anger among workers, writes Alistair Farrow

Thousands protest in London to demand a general election

Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday demanding a general election, an end to the Tory government and an end to austerity.

Will no-deal Brexit mean chaos on the Kent coast?

Politicians, bosses and the press are panicking about the prospect of a no-deal Brexit. It’s driven by fears that leaving the European Union (EU) will hit firms’ profits.

Amber Rudd in hot water after humiliating Universal Credit legal defeat

Four women workers won a high court challenge to the Tories’ Universal Credit (UC) scheme on Friday.

Jeremy Corbyn goes on the offensive and calls for a general election

Jeremy Corbyn has made a fresh demand for a general election, in a speech today that sought to unite Leave and Remain voters against Theresa May’s austerity and racism.