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Revolution has ousted the corrupt Tunisian leader President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

Over 50 protesters came to the Right to Work initiated protest outside RBS headquarters this afternoon (Friday).

Unions have suspended two planned half-day strikes by some 480 bin workers that were due to start in Birmingham today.

MPs will debate and vote on the abolition of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) in parliament on Wednesday 19 January.

Around 3,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union in seven call centres are to strike for two days next week after the collapse of intensive talks with Jobcentre Plus management. This is the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Uprisings are shaking the authoritarian regimes of Tunisia and Algeria in North Africa.

University and college lecturers across Britain could be out on strike on 23 March—budget day.

East Lancashire SWP members, friends and fellow campaigners were shocked and saddened by the sudden death, after a stroke, of Ayeshah Jones on New Year's Day.

Edward Woollard has been sentenced to two years and eight months in a youth detention centre. He is the student who dropped a fire extinguisher from the roof of Millbank Tower during protests on 10 November,

UK Uncut and other activists are calling for protests against the government’s rise in VAT.

The assassination of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer last week highlights the destabilising effect of the "war on terror".

The Times Higher Educational Supplement (THES) ran an article last week highlighting what it called "splits" in the UCU lecturers’ union.