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If revolution is the moment when the masses take to the stage of history, then Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution began on 11 April 2002.

Workers at a 2 Sisters Food Group factory in Corby, Northamptonshire, are set to vote on strikes against attacks including a £40 a week pay cut last year.

Teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions were discussing taking industrial action together as Socialist Worker went to press.

Some 100,000 people took to the streets last Sunday in Bulgaria’s latest wave of protests against poverty and rising utility prices.

Children face strip searches Children were made to strip naked 43,960 times in 25 young offender institutions, children’s homes and training centres in the 21 months to December 2012.

Banks mired in scandal and throwing workers on the dole have all agreed on massive bonuses for the people at the top.

Labour councils and housing associations have criticised the bedroom tax.

The French parliament was set to vote on Wednesday of this week on an attack on workers’ rights effectively drafted by the bosses.

Anger is growing at the government’s attacks on benefits.