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Residents’ protests are demanding that their landlords—whether housing associations or local authorities—stand with them against the bedroom tax.

Ten million people lose part of their council tax benefits in the same week as the cap comes in. This will also hit London hardest due to higher housing costs.

Thousands of people in four London boroughs had their housing benefit cut from Monday of this week to fit under the Tories’ new cap.

Bosses in Paris told “black and Arab” porters not to come to work on the day of a visit by the Israeli president. That’s according to workers in the SUD union at the Gare du Nord station.

Thousands of people are staging daily protests in the run-up to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Bahrain. They point out that the government uses money from the race to buy arms and repress ordinary people in Bahrain.

Hugo Chavez’s chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, won the presidential election in Venezuela last Sunday.

An Egyptian court this week ruled that former dictator Hosni Mubarak shouldn’t be held over the killing of protesters during the revolution. But he is being kept in prison because he faces separate corruption charges.

More than 500 people came to the eighth national Social Work Action Network (Swan) conference in London last weekend.

Around 200 workers in the GMB and Unite unions struck for two days at the Union Electric (Davy Roll) factory in Gateshead last week. After five years without a pay rise in a profitable company shop floor 

Biomedical scientists at the Royal Preston and Chorley hospitals have voted by 96 percent to strike against pay cuts of up to £6,000 a year. 

The Unite union’s Health National Industrial Sector Committee has voted overwhelmingly for action on 26 June.

Health workers and activists are coming to London on 18 May to join the Defend the NHS march called by London Save NHS and Keep Our NHS Public campaigns.