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The struggle to defend education is taking off in England and Scotland. Sadie Robinson and Raymie Kiernan spoke to lecturers and students about how austerity is wrecking education—and how they’re fighting back

Meetings and rallies to build this Saturday’s Stand up to Racism demonstrations are continuing right up to the wire this week.

A breakthrough for a new party in that has called for shooting refugees and outlawing most divorces sent a warning from Germany last Sunday.

Around 8,000 people marched through central London today, Sunday, to oppose the Tories’ Housing and Planning Bill. 

Almost 2,000 people marched on Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire today, Saturday, chanting "Shut it down!" Rejected asylum seekers, mostly women, are locked there for indefinite periods in prison-like conditions.

On the second evening of the junior doctors' strike, around 1,500 strikers and their supporters marched from east London to St Paul's in a brilliant show of defiance of Tory Jeremy Hunt. This is the type of vibrant solidarity event that needs to be repeated on a larger scale, and in every city, on subsequent strike days. 

Some 569 asylum seekers in Britain were forced to sleep in a disused freight shed in Dover between August and October last year. This included 90 children, who also had to sleep on the concrete floor with no bedding.

A 48-hour strike by junior doctors this week was met with massive support, reports Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Over 1,500 junior doctors and their supporters marched from east London into the City of London at the end of their 48-hour walkout today, Thursday.

Students in Sussex University were set to protest tonight, Thursday, against the deportation of student Luqman Onikosi. Some 17 students occupied a university building on Wednesday night.

Meetings and rallies continued this week to build the Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) demonstrations in London, Glasgow and Cardiff on Saturday 19 March.

Junior doctors' determination to resist a dangerous new contract remained firm as they began the second day of their 48-hour walkout today, Thursday.