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Around 40 people assembled outside Huddersfield Royal Infirmary last Friday to celebrate health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s acceptance that plans to close the A&E and downgrade the hospital are seriously flawed. The Clinical Commissionsing Group now has three months to come up with an alternative plan. Campaigning continues.

Workers at the Tesco distribution centre in Dagenham, east London, were set to strike for 24 hours this week.

Workers at TGI Fridays stores in Covent Garden, London and Milton Keynes were set to strike on Friday.

The GMB union protested over the treatment of Amazon workers outside Old Trafford in Manchester on Tuesday.

Strike ballots at Kirklees council’s bins department and Kirklees College in West Yorkshire showed a readiness to fight last week.

BT, Britain’s largest telecoms company, announced last week that it is slashing 13,000 jobs to boost profts. This is on top of 4,000 job cuts last year.

The murder of Palestinians on Monday had a perpetrator, a criminal actor. It was Israel whose snipers fired into the crowds.

The Israeli government has poured millions of pounds into promoting musicians and artists as the liberal face of Israel, explicitly to replace stories of its occupation of Palestine.

PCS union members have the chance to lead the way in the fight against poverty pay by voting for a national statutory strike ballot.

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe. This is how Palestinians describe the expulsion of 850,000 Palestinians from their homes by Israeli forces in 1948.

Four people died and 17 were injured in the Ronan Point Tower Block disaster 50 years ago this Wednesday.

Israel and its supporters blamed the deaths on Monday on Palestinians. They demonised the Palestinians for resisting the occupation.