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There were two visions of British society on display last week. One was the solidarity and strength of the magnificent strikes and demonstrations of public sector workers.

The government portrays public sector workers as a privileged group who enjoy better wages and working conditions than those in the private sector. They are lying.

Michael Gove and the rest of the millionaire Tories claim that ordinary people don’t back the strikes on 30 June.

The Tories are out to rob the poor to pay the rich.

Older people who live in sheltered housing in Sutton expressed their outrage at Tory cuts to their care and support today (Friday).

The government has gone on an all out attack on the unions whose members have voted to strike on 30 June.

Most workers didn’t vote for strikes. If workers strike, it won’t have a democratic mandate.

The government’s Pensions Bill had its second reading in parliament on Monday of this week.

The Tory welfare reform bill will hit the most vulnerable the hardest.

The Tories and the right wing press are bleating on about the turnouts in recent ballots for strikes among public sector workers. They claim the turnouts mean there’s no democratic mandate for strikes—and that they show most workers don’t want to fight their cuts.

Some 290,000 civil service workers have voted join the 30 June mass strikes against Tory attacks on pensions, jobs and pay.

As the Tories push through the biggest attacks on the welfare state in history, the silence from Labour leader Ed Miliband has been deafening.