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Women in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre have been on hunger strike since Friday of last week against their treatment in the centre. The detention centre is used to hold people before they are forcibly removed from Britain.

Around 150 students have occupied the roof and conference centre of Bramber House at Sussex University, near Brighton, today. They are protesting at management’s plans for cuts across campus. The conference centre is often hired out to private companies.

A strike by 750 signals workers has caused major disruption on London Underground today. The RMT transport union members are angry about management's plans to enforce shift changes, break agreements and outsource work.

How can we stop the jobs massacre? by Tom Walker

Lecturers at Leeds University have voted strongly for strike action over job cuts.

Remember the Third World debt crisis of the 1970s and 1980s? The First World debt crisis of the 2000s and 2010s may make it look like a tea party.

"The decision I took—and frankly would take again—was if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction we should stop him.

High street chemist Boots is cutting more than 15,000 workers’ pensions.

The government has thrown 202,700 people off disability benefits in just over a year, new figures show.

Hundreds of people protested against Haitian president Rene Preval on Saturday of last week.