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End this ‘evil bedroom tax’

‘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

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

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

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

The NHS is under the cosh, having been instructed by the government to make savings of £20 billion. This has driven a relentless assault upon the terms and conditions of thousands of employees

Them & Us

MPs’ pay rise: £65,738 a year basic salary just isn’t enough for our MPs. Not to mention their infamous expenses.

Fighting cuts in wales

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

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

George Tapp, who has stood as a TUSC candidate in council elections in Salford, has been hospitalised after being hit by a car while taking part in a protest against blacklisting

University backs down: students and workers win!

Support for Mid Yorkshire Health struggle in the Mirror

On 17 May, the Daily Mirror carried an excellent column by Paul Routledge about the important struggle taking place in Mid Yorkshire Health Trust.

Strike against legal aid cuts

A demonstration outside parliament is being held on 22 May against the Con-Dems’ proposals to further cut legal aid

March against the G8

At this year’s G8 summit in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on 17-18 June, heads of the largest capitalist economies will discuss how they can further the interests of the super-rich, big business and the bankers.

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

In May the prison officers’ union POA met for their national conference in Southport. POA is increasingly at the centre of the battle against austerity

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

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