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The revolts sweeping the Middle East have burst like thunder storms across a region long considered beyond change, carried by people long considered incapable of fighting back.

Over 150 delegates from universities across Britain met in Harrogate last week at the Unison union’s higher education conference.

The great storm of revolt that began in a small town in Tunisia now sweeps from Morroco across thousands of miles of North Africa and the Middle East through to Iran, as this map shows.

The Yemeni people have taken to the streets, calling for the resignation of the dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Following the overthrow of Ben Ali in Tunisia, and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, all regimes in the Middle East—whether considered "friendly" or "hostile" by the West—have been challenged by the spreading revolutionary movement.

Leading activists in the Egyptian workers’ movement, representing tens of thousands of striking workers, met in Cairo last Saturday.

The small island state of Bahrain is being rocked by an uprising.

The TUC national demonstration against cuts on 26 March was the clear focus at Unison women’s conference last week.

NUT union members took to the picket lines on Wednesday of last week in protest at plans to transform their school into an academy.

The leader of Renfrewshire Council in Scotland says he will suspend plans to replace teachers with unqualified part-time staff in primary schools.

Teachers at John Port school in Derbyshire have announced a five-day strike to begin on Tuesday of next week.

Council Workers in Nottinghamshire were set to be the first to walk out against the cuts this week.