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The Tories say they have to force thousands of public sector workers to suffer worse pensions because they can’t afford to sustain them.

"Everyone is clutching at explanations for the riots—gangs, greed, family breakdown, lack of respect. But I would like to go into their deeper causes.

Anti-racists and anti-fascists from across Britain will join thousands of local people in east London on 3 September.

Establishment historian David Starkey sparked outrage last week when he blamed black culture for the "criminality" of last week’s riots.

Over 400 people joined the Unite Against Fascism (UAF) protest against the racist English Defence League (EDL) in Telford last Saturday (left).

Right wingers wheeled out a well-worn cliché to explain the riots last week—the underclass. "London riots: the underclass lashes out," read one Daily Telegraph headline, while the Financial Times said the riots were "the intifada of the underclass".

Nicolas Kent is to stand down from the renowned Tricycle theatre as a result of Tory cuts to the arts.

The stunning Arab Revolutions exhibition shows the ordinary people who have risen up across the region this year.

Now playing as part of the Edinburgh Festival, Dust imagines a day in 2011 when Margaret Thatcher has died.

Riots: Rightful rage or counter-productive? Some of your analysis of the riots across Britain (Socialist Worker, 13 August) is true. Young people have no hope, and have been brought up in a culture valuing commercialism above all else.

This 1965 play by left wing playwright Harold Pinter has been revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company.