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Birmingham Benefit Justice Campaign has called a demonstration against the bedroom tax in Birmingham on Saturday of this week. 

Tenants and workers are organising resistance to the bedroom tax across Britain, reports Dave Sewell

Around 150 people marched against the bedroom tax in Bristol last week.

Some 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain - if half the money spent on housing benefit was spent on social housing, according to the GMB union. It found that £23 billion was spent on housing benefit in 2011/12. Much of this goes to the pockets of private landlords who have hiked up rents.

Mass workers’ resistance and rent strikes in the 1970s showed how to beat attacks on tenants—despite betrayals by Labour and union leaders, writes Dave Sewell

In 1990 when Thatcher brought in the "Community Charge" we were told it was only "fair" that the "duke and his gardener pay the same". The Community Charge was a flat rate council tax imposed on every individual in Britain, regardless of income.

Benefit slashing Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith called for an extra £3 billion of welfare cuts on Tuesday of this week.

Protests were set to challenge the bedroom tax around Britain on Saturday of this week.

Two Labour-run Scottish councils have begun sending eviction letters to tenants affected by the bedroom tax.

Around 200 people protested against the bedroom tax in Sheffield on Saturday of last week.

Ten claimants began a legal challenge against the bedroom tax on Wednesday of last week. 

University College London and Newham council have abandoned plans to bulldoze the Carpenters Estate in Stratford, east London.