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The Tories are trying to split up the health service and privatise it. 

Jobcentre workers have spoken out against the Tories’ new attacks on claimants.

Osborne says we need cuts to deal with Britain’s budget deficit.

In Egypt, Brazil and Turkey people have taken to the streets in their thousands and their millions to demand social justice.

The Egyptian masses have shown, once again, that they have the power to shake the rich and powerful. 

The return of millions to the streets of Egypt on 30 June follows months of rising social protest. Anne Alexander reports on the continuing revolution that is growing in strength well beyond Cairo’s Tahrir Square

The East shows undercover agents spying on environmental activists but fails to develop anyone’s motives much beyond caricature, says Camilla Royle

Teachers from two unions struck across the north west of England last week as part of a campaign against government attacks on education. Sadie Robinson reports from Liverpool

Sue Bannister, an NUT member, said workers needed to up the ante against the Tories.

On the anniversary of the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster, Socialist Worker looks at the union-busting and callous lack of safety that condemned oil workers to death

Workers formed the Oilc union in 1988 in the aftermath of Piper Alpha. The battle to build effective offshore union organisation can be a matter of life and death.