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Sections of the outer fence of Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre were torn down today, Saturday, as some 700 people protested outside to demand its closure.

Workers in the UCU and Unison unions at London Metropolitan University struck together yesterday, Thursday, in a row over redundancies.

Workers at Lewisham and Southwark College (Lesoco) struck today, Thursday, in defence of jobs and education.

Up to 400 people joined a demonstration outside Dungavel detention centre in Scotland last Saturday. The protest was called by the Scottish TUC (STUC).

Workers in the Community union at Tata Steel plants across Britain have voted by almost 90 percent to strike in defence of their pensions.

Tower Hamlets is set to elect a new mayor on 11 June after a racist witch hunt saw Lutfur Rahman removed. Now Rabina Khan is running to defend democracy and take on the establishment, her supporters told Dave Sewell

Greece’s government entered the final month of its bailout extension this week under more pressure than ever.

Activists have been imprisoned as part of an Egyptian government crackdown, reports Judith Orr

The week's news in their own words

Royston Smith, the new Tory MP for Southampton Itchen, is a generous man.

Fresh inquests into the Hillsborough disaster heard evidence about 14 year old victim Adam Spearritt on Monday of this week.

Up to 600 Filipino health workers and supporters rallied outside the Daily Mail’s west London offices last Saturday, to defiant chants of “End racism now”.