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22 May 2013
MPs' pay rise: £65,738 a year basic salary just isn't enough for our MPs. Not to mention their infamous expenses.
22 May 2013
Bedroom tax campaigning in Leytonstone, Birmingham and Newham
Diary of a bedroom tax campaigner: Ian Pattison, Waltham Forest Socialist Party and Waltham Forest Anti-Cuts Union describes a week of campaigning against the bedroom tax
22 May 2013
Anti-bedroom tax federation launched in Merseyside
Around 40 delegates gathered at the Unite union building in Liverpool on 18 May to set up a federation to coordinate anti-bedroom tax groups across Merseyside, writes Andy Ford.
16 May 2013
We are living in a time of revolts, rebellions and revolutions. Across Europe, millions of workers have been involved in general strikes against brutal austerity unleashed by the bosses and their political...
15 May 2013
Coventry Against The Bedroom Tax - Bekir's Story
Coventry Against The Bedroom Tax have posted a video to their website: www.coventryagainstthebedroomtax.wordpress.com.
15 May 2013
We've been hearing this rubbish for years - British workers are lazy - and now Eton-educated Tory London mayor Boris 'the bankers' friend' Johnson has stepped in, accusing British workers of sloth
Poll Tax demonstration 1990
15 May 2013
When mass action defeated Thatcher's poll tax
Launching the battle in Scotland: Margaret Thatcher was dubbed the Iron Lady. She wore this description with pride as, like her successors today, she ruthlessly tried to solve British capitalism's difficulties by launching brutal attacks...
On the march in Bootle against the Bedroom Tax, May 2013, photo Socialist Party
15 May 2013
Axe the killer tax: End the bedroom tax now
The death of Stephanie Bottrill, who couldn't afford the bedroom tax, is a tragedy made in Westminster by a government that wants to make working class people pay for the economic crisis
15 May 2013
Capitalist crisis: 'Desperate times call for desperate measures': On 4 April the new governor of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, took the world of finance completely by surprise when he launched an unprecedented stimulus package cash injection
Axe the killer tax - end the bedroom tax now, photo Socialist Party
15 May 2013
Bedroom tax non-implementation
Only mass action can defeat it: Some disabled workers have raised the idea of urging civil servants and local authority workers to refuse to participate in administering these new laws
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard , photo by Paul Mattsson
15 May 2013
Campaigning works - Action gets results: The re-election of the Democracy Alliance national executive committee is a real blow to the government's attempt to break PCS members' resolve, writes John McInally
15 May 2013
Wales TUC: no fight against austerity
There is a myth put out by the leaders of Labour-affiliated trade unions that the Welsh government is protecting Welsh workers from the worst of the cuts, writes Ronnie Job.
Con-Dems benefit fact fraud - tax, avoided, evaded and uncollected, photo Socialist Party
15 May 2013
Fat cat tax-dodging: 200 lorry loads of lolly!
Anger is rising at the companies and millionaires who pay little or no tax in Britain. They're very happy to make money exploiting people's hard work - but less keen to put anything back, writes Tom Baldwin.
London march to save the NHS, 18.5.13, photo Dave Carr
15 May 2013
Condition critical: Cuts in NHS staffing levels as a result of 'efficiency savings', and the drive to achieve Foundation Trust status, mean that patient care is at unsafe levels, writes Simon Carter.
13 May 2013
Stop the cruel, ruthless bedroom tax!
On Sunday 12 May the suicide was reported of a 53 year old woman, Stephanie Bottrill, who killed herself because of the bedroom tax. This is a tragedy made in Westminster by a government that wants to make working class people pay for the crisis of the bankers, the super-rich and the capitalist system they represent.
TUSC protest outside Camden town hall, March 2013, photo Neil Cafferky
8 May 2013
Capitalist parties rejected: Time for a new mass workers' party
The results of the county council elections on 2 May marked a new low for all three major parties. For the first time ever not one of them got 30% or more of the vote; another illustration of the hollowing out of their base of support
Hull protest against the Bedroom Tax , photo by Lash
8 May 2013
While people struggling to survive on low incomes are being hammered by pay cuts, bedroom tax, cuts in council tax support and other benefits, George Osborne recently slashed the top rate of income tax for himself and his millionaire chums
8 May 2013
CWU supports 24-hour general strike
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) conference on 21 and 22 April was held against the backdrop of the constant threat of wholesale postal privatisation and unprecedented attacks, union busting and sackings of CWU members across Royal Mail, BT and the communications industry
8 May 2013
May Day - fighting capitalist oppression internationally
CWI members, often in difficult circumstances, organised and participated in May Day events around the world. Here are a few short reports..
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