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The new Tory minister for disabled people is against protecting benefits for cancer patients and disabled children.

Greece’s state broadcaster ERT is set to officially return on Monday of next week—two years after its closure. This is a victory for workers who occupied ERT and operated it under workers’ control.

A wave of defiance against Tory austerity is punching through the shock of David Cameron’s victory.

Delegates to the firefighters’ FBU union conference in Blackpool last week debated the way forward for the union. 

The vibrant protests and mass meetings against the Tories during the last week should inspire us all.

There was a carnival atmosphere as some 4,000 people joined a vibrant anti-austerity protest through Bristol city centre yesterday, Wednesday, finishing at Castle Park.

Around 2,000 people marched on Downing Street last Saturday, two days after the election, to vent their anger at the Tories.

The Greek government, led by the radical left Syriza party, is backsliding under pressure from the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF). But workers are not taking this lying down.

The all-out strike at Labour-run Glasgow City Council by homelessness caseworkers entered its seventh week on Tuesday of this week.

Around 200 people rallied in central Manchester last Saturday in solidarity with homeless people and supporters camped out in the town square.

Workers at Tory-run Bromley Council in south London are resisting a vicious programme of cuts and privatisation that could cut the council workforce from 4,000 to 300. 

Hundreds of thousands of voters in Scotland last week took their revenge on the Labour Party for years of betrayals and its alliance with the Tories in September’s independence referendum.