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Fight cuts, Back strikes, Vote TUSC

On 22 May millions of working class people have the opportunity to vote in the local government elections. At the same time workers are voting or have voted for strike action to resist the attacks on their pay, pensions and working conditions.

More local news coverage for TUSC, but BBC downplays council elections

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Why I’m standing for TUSC

Housing crisis: TUSC candidates demand socialist policies

Election appeal 2014 – £4,278 raised so far

Prepare for almighty battles against austerity

Capitalism is a system in crisis. It is delivering austerity for the majority and unimaginable wealth for a few at the top. Inevitably it is increasingly being questioned, writes Hannah Sell

$15: Seattle shows what a movement can achieve

But Kshama Sawant says “Our work is far from done”: Under intense pressure from the movement for a $15 an hour minimum wage, Seattle’s establishment was forced to come forward with a proposal to significantly increase the wages for 100,000 low-paid workers

Schools – Would things get better under Labour?

Teachers reading the Guardian’s headline, “Labour vows to rub out Michael Gove’s education reforms”, hoped a miracle had happened

Private sector rents and Labour

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world!: Labour launched its election campaign with proposals aimed at attracting private renters. There is little detail, but Ed Miliband raises a few limited measures

Care homes abuse scandals

For-profit companies don’t care: Yet another exposé into the abuse of elderly people hit the headlines. BBC’s Panorama broadcast the latest in a string of shocking video evidence of direct abuse and neglect within care homes.

Pfizer takeover bid

Them & Us

RMT forces London Underground to back down

RMT has won important changes in London Underground’s proposals for job cuts and re-organisation on the tube

Striking against Land Registry cuts

Care UK workers start 14 days of strike action

Lots of hands went up to volunteer to join the Doncaster Care UK strike committee set up at the strikers’ rally on 5 May, which began a further 14 days of strike action

CWU conference – time to build Broad Left

A motion calling for the next Labour government to renationalise Royal Mail was passed at the recent CWU annual conference

Workplace news in brief

We can scrap zero-hour contracts

Labour’s hollow promises not enough: The latest figures show up to 2.7 million people are employed on zero-hour contracts. More than one in ten employers now uses them.

No support for zero-hour contracts

RMT turns out in strength for May Day march

Thousands marched in London on Thursday to celebrate May Day and to commemorate Bob Crow and Tony Benn

May Day rallies in Swansea and Ipswich

Battling the cuts: when push comes to shove

Freedom riders on a storm

Elderly and disabled people in South Yorkshire are still catching trains and refusing to pay. We’ve now held five ‘Freedom Ride’ protests

Leeds protest against privatisation of student loans

The government plans to sell off student loans to private companies. To show our outrage, 50 students marched around Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan University