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Tenants, trade unionists and others are organising to fight the Tories’ bedroom tax across Britain.

People protested around the country today, Saturday, against the bedroom tax and other benefit cuts. Events were organised in some of the hardest hit areas and on the doorsteps of the millionaire ministers behind the attacks.

The day after Margaret Thatcher died the newspapers were remarkably uniform—only one broke the mould

Could Iain Duncan Smith really get by on £7.37 a day? The smug architect of the government’s welfare reforms insists he “could if I had to”. Socialist Worker and benefit claimant Paul went to his mansion in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, to find out

The Tories’ welfare cuts have sparked widespread protest.

The Tories have lost one of their heroes and millions of workers are celebrating.

Those who remember what Thatcher did to the miners—and to many other working class communities—will prefer her immortalised as the poet Shelley did another Tory politician, Lord Castlereagh, after the Peterloo massacre in 1819: “I met murder on the way— / he had a mask like Castlereagh”.

A blizzard of cuts is set to rob billions from people on benefits this month.

Just days before the Tories’ bedroom tax came into effect, more than 25,000 people protested in over 50 cities across Britain.

How the Tories are attacking a range of our benefits this month

Totally marginalised under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the Labour left has been one of the driving forces behind the swelling protest movement against the bedroom tax, writes Alex Callinicos

Thousands of people took to the streets today, Saturday—just days before the bedroom tax hits social housing tenants that have what the Tories call a “spare room”.