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19 June 2013
We can beat the bedroom tax - Supplement to the Socialist
Thousands have protested in fury against people being forced out of their homes or robbed of up to 25% of their housing benefit. This is a 'know your rights' guide for campaigners
19 June 2013
Lowest living standards in a decade
It was no shock when it was reported recently that living standards had fallen to the lowest levels in a decade, writes Frankie Langland.
19 June 2013
As the first evictions related to bedroom tax arrears are heard in the courts, campaigners are organising to beat them, writes Campaign stops eviction in Manchester.
12 June 2013
When Tory Foreign Secretary William Hague says law abiding citizens have nothing to fear from government intelligence gathering, then be very afraid! Dave Carr writes.
National Shop Stewards Network demonstration and lobby of the TUC 11 September 2011 , photo by Paul Mattsson
12 June 2013
Build for mass anti-cuts action
Come to the National Shop Stewards Network conference 29 June
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) annual conference is only two weeks away! On Saturday 29 June, trade unionists and anti-cuts campaigners will come together in a vital meeting
12 June 2013
Labour crosses the Rubicon - again
In a series of speeches last week, the Labour leadership crossed the Rubicon and completely betrayed the poor and working class
12 June 2013
End the rule of big business, poverty and war: The leaders of the most powerful nations in the world will soon descend on Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, for the 17-18 June G8 Summit, writes Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
A small group of BNP supporters gathered heavily out-numbered by anti-BNP protestors in London's Whitehall , 1 June 2013,, photo Paul Mattsson
12 June 2013
Far-right EDL march in Sheffield: class-based response needed
On 8 June as many as 2,000 local people turned out to oppose the far-right English Defence League (EDL) marching in Sheffield, writes Sam Morecroft and Chaz Lockett.
12 June 2013
Hard times: Many people are struggling in these recessionary times, but spare a thought for our hard-pressed MPs
6 June 2013
Derby Telegraph reports on new bedroom tax campaign
"Ms Herbert, of Gerard Street, says she cannot downsize as she needs a room for her son and that she is struggling to plug a £14 weekly rent deficit..."
Pic: Jim Halfpenny
5 June 2013
Food bank Britain: Con-Dems turn the clock back
At anti-bedroom tax meetings many people report that they are going without food as they try to pay their rent, writes Steve Score
5 June 2013
NSSN conference: Unite to fight all the cuts
Pay cuts, jobs cuts, pension cuts, low pay, high rents, Bedroom Tax... The National Shop Stewards Network conference on 29 June will bring together trade unionists and anti-cuts campaigners to discuss action over the coming months.
5 June 2013
Needed: new social housing NOT unaffordable rents
Newham council is currently housing 29 families outside the east London borough, including ten that have been shipped out to Birmingham, writes Helen Pattison, East London Socialist Party.
4 June 2013
Thousands attend anti-bedroom tax protest in Glasgow
Over 2,000 people attended an anti-bedroom tax rally in Glasgow's George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti-Bedroom Tax
3 June 2013
PCS tax and welfare strikes this week
A week of rolling strikes involving 135,000 workers from the two largest government departments kicks off today, 3 June
29 May 2013
Working class unity is needed to end austerity: Aghast, millions of people watched the shaky amateur footage of the brutal killing of a young soldier, Lee Rigby, in Woolwich, south east London
PCS national strike, 20 March 2013, pickets in Maidstone, Kent, photo Kent SP
29 May 2013
PCS conference sends defiant message to the government
PCS conference sends defiant message to the government PCS union delegates met in Brighton for their annual conference last week to review the union's resistance to the Con-Dems' vicious austerity attacks, writes Rob Williams (chair, NSSN)
Leeds anti-bedroom tax demonstration 21 April 2013 , photo Mid Shelley
29 May 2013
Evict this millionaires' government
Scrap the bedroom tax: New data shows that greedy Con-Dem MPs in the cruel cuts Coalition made over £7 million doing outside jobs. Not content with creaming off their expenses they take on directorships in profiteering companies too.
29 May 2013
Campaign to stop bedroom tax evictions!
Feature: Less than two months after being introduced, the bedroom tax is already causing the chaos campaigners predicted it would
29 May 2013
Even the cutters say cuts aren't working!
Chancellor George Osborne has been warned: his austerity package is "playing with fire". Working class people know all too well the effects of the cuts - the painful slashing of our living standards
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