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Rage at the cuts exploded last week, with protesters confronting councillors as they tried to vote through cuts.

Activists involved in the UK Uncut anti-tax avoidance group shut down more than 40 branches of Barclays bank last Saturday.

Tory prime minister David Cameron wants to give private companies and charities the right to run public services—to end what he calls the "state monopoly" over them.

The general election in Ireland on Friday of this week takes place in a context where official politics has descended into chaos.

The Tories’ false NHS promises were laid bare last week as more than 1,000 job losses were announced.

The Tory government looks a little bit weaker after a series of small but significant U-turns over the last week.

The US is reeling after revolution threw out one of its major allies, Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. For the American ruling class, the revolt invokes terrible memories of Iran in 1979—where a revolution brought down Iran’s ruler, the Shah.

The Unite union has called a new strike ballot at British Airways.

The campaign to reinstate suspended teacher Sue Caldwell is growing.

Specialist teachers in Oldham struck on Tuesday of last week against plans to axe their jobs. The teachers work with children who move to Britain with little or no English.

Lecturers in further and higher education are holding national strike ballots to defend jobs, pay and pensions.

NUT, NASUWT, ATL and Unison union members at Danescourt Primary School in Cardiff struck on Thursday of last week over the suspension of four workers by the school’s headteacher.