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London’s housing crisis is fuelling demand for bringing back rent controls.

South Yorkshire Freedom Riders celebrate another victory but vow to restart action against cuts if councils don’t backtrack, says Sadie Robinson

Councils across Britain continue to implement Tory austerity. 

Anti-cuts campaigners celebrated a victory last week after they forced the mayor of Tower Hamlets in east London into a U-turn over cuts to the Children and Adult Mental Health social work team.

The government’s own auditor admits cuts have pushed council services to breaking point

Around 1,000 people came to a meeting in Tower Hamlets, east London, on Wednesday of last week.

Up to 500 people protested outside Glasgow City Council on Wednesday of last week to defend the Glasgow Association of Mental Health (GAMH).

Voting ends this week in pay consultation ballots of local government workers in England and Wales.

Recycling workers in Sheffield are on indefinite strike against attacks on their pay and conditions. Tomáš Tengely-Evans reports

Recycling workers in the GMB union in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, began an indefinite strike last Saturday.

Unison leaders face a serious kickback over their decision to call off a local government strike on 14 October.