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The executive of the UCU lecturers’ union met today (Friday) and voted three to one for a strike on 1 March over pensions and to invite other unions to join them.

Picket lines swelled at Unilever factories from Port Sunlight in Merseyside to Purfleet in Essex this morning (Wednesday) as the second wave of strikes to defend pensions got underway.

Occupy London protesters camped outside St Paul’s cathedral have been told they will be evicted next Friday unless they win the right to appeal.

A mass campaign has forced education secretary Michael Gove to retreat on plans to force a primary school to become a privatised academy.

The Tories are facing fierce opposition to their plans to snatch billions of pounds from benefit claimants.

Bus workers at Stagecoach in South Yorkshire walked out on Monday of this week—their eighth strike day. The strike followed a decision last week to reject a management offer in their pay dispute.

Labour leaders in Nigeria called off a general strike on Monday of this week after the government agreed to partly reintroduce petrol subsidies.

There’s no media or transport in Attica today because workers are on strike.

A video showing US marines urinating on Afghans they had killed is sadly not surprising.

The British intelligence services are bogged down in accusations of torture and collusion.

The institution set up to bail out failing European economies has become the latest casualty of the crisis.

Since the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago, it has supposedly been standard that ships are built for safety first.