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From the working class demonstrations of the Chartists in the 19th century to the anti-war and anti-capitalist movements today one thing has remained a constant – police repression.

The defiant stand taken by sacked Ford Visteon car component workers at plants in Belfast, Basildon and Enfield marks a turning point in class struggle in Britain.

Gordon Brown wants working class people to pay for the government’s growing budget deficit by cutting pay, slashing jobs and axing services.

The People’s Charter for Change, a major initiative in response to the devastating impact of the recession on working class people, was launched this week.

Alan Walter, a socialist and working class activist, died at his home in Camden, north London, last Saturday.

Socialist Workers Party (SWP) members and working class activists will be shocked and saddened to hear the news that Alan Walter died suddenly from a heart attack last Saturday.

This new album from US activist and singer Jon Fromer highlights issues such as class and race through modern blues and folk songs.

If the Royal Bank of Scotland had been allowed to go bust the bank’s former boss, Sir Fred Goodwin, would be on a pension of £20,000 a year. That’s what he’d be entitled to from the Pension Protection Fund, the safety net this government was forced to put in place for when company pension schemes collapse.

The Class portrays a year in the life of a Parisian secondary school.

The global recession has had a huge impact on working class people in China. Since the earthquake in Sichuan province in May last year, over 600,000 migrant workers have left their jobs and returned home from other parts of the country to see their families.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) put Britain at the bottom of the class in its revised forecast for the world economy last week. At the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Gordon Brown was forced to refute suggestions that London was now "Reykjavik on The Thames" – a reference to Iceland’s economic crash.

Gordon Brown’s bailout for the banks reflects a growing sense of panic among the ruling class as the economic crisis deepens.