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A school in central London has banned a student from attending because she wears a niqab. But more than 300 people have signed a petition calling on Camden School for Girls to “stop its Islamophobia” in the wake of the ban.

National Gallery privatisation halted | Defend Cops Off Campus protesters | Focus E15 occupation shows up housing crisis | Vote TUSC in Haringey |

Thousands of university and college students in Hong Kong started a week long boycott of classes this week.

The Labour leader’s speech mixed pro-business pledges with vague rhetoric, writes Simon Basketter

The Campaign for Real Poverty is what privatisation should be called, argues author James Meek.

The 1.6 million people who voted Yes in last week’s referendum can be proud of themselves.

Greek workers strike; Egyptian socialist Mahienour el-Massry released;Spanish Tories drop plans to overturn abortion rights

The US is sending 3,000 troops to Liberia, west Africa, in the next month. It claims it is to deal with the Ebola crisis, and so far insists that it is just a matter of logistics and engineering.

Syrian socialist speaks out against the West's bombs

Cruise missiles rained down on Syria from fighter jets, Predator and Reaper drones and from the sea on Tuesday of this week.

Care workers in the Unison union struck last week in their dispute over pay with bosses at Your Choice Barnet (YCB) in north London.

In a desperate bid to head off a Scottish Yes vote, David Cameron evoked a mythical British Empire that had given democracy to the poor and freedom to the slaves. Here Ken Olende looks back at what life was really like when Britannia ruled the waves