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Poverty pay has put some public sector workers who provide essential services to millions of people on the minimum wage.

Ukip was set to win its first MP on Thursday of this week, when a by-election will take place in Clacton, Essex.

Doncaster Care UK workers launched a fresh three-week strike on Monday of this week. 

Tory-run Barnet Council in north London is giving preferential treatment to private firms over its own local authority trading company, Your Choice Barnet (YCB).

London Fire Brigade Comissioner Ron Dobson has provoked outrage by recommending striking firefighters be locked out.

A series of successful strikes by workers across different unions can boost confidence to take on the Tories—and counter pressure on union leaders to retreat, says Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Some 15 ballots of Unison union members in academy schools all backed strikes—and they will join the local government walkout on 14 October.

While resignations and scandal swirled round them, the Tories wallowed in their plans for more attacks on workers.

 Austerity is now permanent, according to the Tories at their annual conference. Chancellor George Osborne rallied the faithful around a new and vicious assault on welfare benefits. 

 The Tories used their conference this week to propose more nasty attacks on poor people. 

Health workers in England are set to walk out on 13 October—and now we have to fight to make it as big as possible and a focus for opposition to the Tories, argues Annette Mackin

The mass movement that emerged around the fight for Scottish independence was driven by working class anger. This rage is not unique to Scotland.