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Students continued an occupation of Birmingham University's senate chamber yesterday as part of national protests against the privatisation of student debt.
They met no resistance as they rushed into the building at 6.30pm on Wednesday and barricaded the room's doors using bikes and tables.
It came on the day that the Student Assembly Against Austerity staged protests against the sell-off of the student loan book across Britain.
Hundreds travel to Birmingham to join ‘mega picket’ of striking refuse workers and supporters
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As Birmingham’s refuse workers fight brutal pay cuts, Strike Map rallies mass solidarity, with unions, activists, and workers converging to defy scab labour and police intimidation. The message to Labour? Back workers or face rebellion, writes HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE
