A Tory council’s plans to close two schools and turn them into an academy have been foiled in Manchester.
Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory minister for welfare and pensions, last week said people in Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales should "get on the bus" to go and find a job in Cardiff.
"I lost my home help a couple of years ago, which means that since then we’ve had to pay for any help with cleaning and so on.
Anger at the Tories’ vicious assault on our services and jobs erupted onto the streets last Saturday as tens of thousands protested across the country—from Edinburgh to Bristol.
The Tory cuts are tearing into the futures of young people.
London's firefighters have launched a massive escalation of their strikes by calling a 47-hour walkout – starting at 10am on 5 November.
The mass picket outside London fire brigade's Southwark Training Centre,
The London firefighters’ strike ended at 6pm today (Saturday) – but the mass picketing didn’t. As the scabs tried to get the fire engines back into the bosses’ base, the firefighters hounded every last one of them, late into the night.
Striking London firefighters scored a huge victory against management's scabbing operation today (Saturday). Militant mass pickets all but destroyed bosses' operation to break the strike.
Scotland Over 25,000 trade unionists, campaigners, pensioners, students and disabled and unemployed people took to the streets in Edinburgh today against the cuts.
