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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

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

Give us jobs, not Tory lies

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

Stop the health cuts!

Trade union-led national action on NHS needed now: The chair of the NHS regulator has warned that pressure on A&E units is “out of control… [and] totally unsustainable”

Fat cat tax-dodging: 200 lorry loads of lolly!

Con-Dems’ benefit fact fraud

A survey carried out by the TUC earlier this year revealed that people believe, on average, that 27% of the welfare budget is claimed fraudulently, writes Ben Golightly.

Them & Us

Japan’s ‘Abenomics’

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

TUSC builds support in Leicester byelection

After more than a month’s dedicated campaigning for TUSC, the Abbey ward byelection in Leicester was held on 9 May, writes Tessa Warrington, Leicester Abbey ward byelection TUSC candidate.

Swansea’s food bank for students

British government supports murderous Sri Lankan regime

Socialist Party meeting against cuts

Gloves off in Mid Yorks hospital battle

As the government continues to do all it can to dismantle and privatise the NHS, workers’ pay and conditions are under constant threat, writes Adrian O’Malley

Brighton bin workers fight pay cuts – this time from the Greens

Wales TUC: no fight against austerity

Unison leader ‘gets it wrong’ over action on pay

PCS conference 20-23 May

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

One Housing

Workplace news in brief

Letter to the Tories who tell me to ‘work hard and strive’

My five brothers and sisters and I worked harder in our first 16 years of life than you have your whole life through, writes Teresa Stuart to the Tory government

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…

Yeadon Mill strike 1913