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Campaigners defending jobs at London Metropolitan University are furious after the government reneged on its promise to hold an independent inquiry into the university’s finances.

Over 700 people attended a fundraiser organised by the Stop the War Coalition at London’s Hackney Empire last week.

More than 400 Dial-A-Ride drivers employed by Transport for London (TfL) held a solid strike for 24 hours on Friday of last week.

The reballot of 10,000 RMT union members across London Underground and Transport for London for strike action against job losses, management bullying, and for decent pay was set to end on Thursday of this week.

Members of the RMT transport union on the Victoria Line of London Underground struck over the victimisation of union members for 24 hours from 9pm on Wednesday of last week.

The next major date in the jobs fight is Saturday 13 June. That is when the Fight for the Right to Work conference will take place in central London.

London ballot Some 10,000 members of the RMT transport union across London Underground and Transport for London are reballoting for strike action over job cuts, pay and management’s breaches of disciplinary and attendance agreement.

Students at London Metropolitan University occupied their building on Monday of last week in protest at planned job cuts at the university.

Royal Mail’s reported annual profits have doubled to £321 million, but the government is still determined to push ahead with privatising it.

Lecturers in the UCU union at London Metropolitan University became the latest group to take action to defend education when they struck on Thursday of last week.

Several hundred construction workers from sites all over Britain protested at the Olympic site in east London last week.

Cleaner Alberto Durango was reported to immigration by his bosses after building a union at his workplace and campaigning for the London living wage.