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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 22 May 2013, issue 766
 End this 'evil bedroom tax'
Leeds anti-bedroom tax demonstration 21 April 2013, photo Mid Shelley 'How can the person responsible for driving through this evil bedroom tax look at himself in the mirror every day?', writes Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool Socialist Party.
Anti-bedroom tax federation launched in Merseyside
Bedroom tax campaigning in Leytonstone, Birmingham and Newham
Tories in turmoil over Europe The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe. Over half of Tory backbenchers voted against the Queen's speech - their own government's legislative agenda
Big business tax avoidance scandal We are the 99% - Take the wealth off the 1% Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson Make the corporate fat cats pay! We've been robbed! Every day big corporations are stealing millions from us; millions that could be used to employ doctors and nurses, to build desperately needed houses and to reverse the massive cuts
Another blow for workfare
NHS staff under the cuts cosh
Them & Us
Fighting cuts in wales Caerphilly march to save the A&E, photo Becky Davis Wales faces a bleak future on the basis of capitalism unless the working class can defend public services and the welfare state
South African economy: Mass sacking threat demands mass action The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) has denounced Amplats' (Anglo American - the world's largest platinum producer) cold-blooded plans to slash 6,000 jobs
Sri Lanka: Isolate the murderous Rajapaksa regime
Southampton TUSC rally Sue Atkins, Southampton council TUSC candidate, photo Southampton Socialist Party Labour non-answers show why real anti-cuts councillors are needed: 'Can you guarantee that Sure Start, libraries and Woolston youth centre will still be open'? asked TUSC candidate Sue Atkins
Anti-blacklisting campaigner run over
University backs down: students and workers win!
Support for Mid Yorkshire Health struggle in the Mirror
Strike against legal aid cuts
March against the G8
London Socialist Party regional conference
Fighting back pays off: Thera East Midlands forced to make concessions After very successful strike action, support workers employed by Thera East Midlands have won some important concessions
POA conference - Prisons should not be run for profit
Support Carling brewery workers at Burton-on-Trent
Sacked Tesco drivers on the march again
PCS members fight Land Registry privatisation
Firefighters prepare for pensions battle
Workplace news in brief
Cuts kill: Con-Dem benefit 'reforms', mental health and suicide Hardest Hit Protest: Disabled people and their families protest in central London against government spending cuts, photo Paul Mattsson Steven Bottrill, whose disabled mum Stephanie killed herself because of the bedroom tax, said: "Hopefully now someone will listen. Someone will realise what has gone on and change things"
Why I joined the socialists
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