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Tens of thousands of people protested against austerity in Brussels on Friday of last week. Large parts of Belgium’s transport system were shut down by strikes.

It was the week that support for strikes helped to sell newspapers. While most of the press jumped on board the union-bashing bandwagon, for a few days before the strike the Daily Mirror went back to its roots.

The Tories reacted to the 30 November public sector strike by dismissing it as a "damp squib". But their actions since the strike tell a different story to their words.

Dozens of Labour Party constituencies and thousands of Labour activists declared their support for the 30 November strike.

Teachers in Newham, east London, have called for borough-wide strikes to support strikers at Langdon School.

Over 400 skilled workers at defence electronics company Selex Galileo were set to strike on Thursday of this week over pay.

The Unite union held its biannual sector conferences last week. Delegates told Socialist Worker there was real mood of excitement after the 30 November strike.

Some 200 electricians gathered at the Balfour Beatty site at Blackfriars in central London on the day of the public sector general strike last week.

Over 2,000 private sector workers in three trade unions were set to walk out on Friday of this week at multinational company Unilever.

Greece was shut down on Thursday by its first general strike since the newly formed coalition government. It was very effective.

It was a historic day. Britain’s biggest strike since 1926 saw the working class march firmly on to centre stage of the political arena.

Nurses and other trade unionists in several US cities rallied in support of the strike in Britain.