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Tens of thousands of people took part in demonstrations against the Tory cuts last week. The resistance has begun, and not a moment too soon.

A Tory council’s plans to close two schools and turn them into an academy have been foiled in Manchester.

Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory minister for welfare and pensions, last week said people in Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales should "get on the bus" to go and find a job in Cardiff.

Anger at the Tories’ vicious assault on our services and jobs erupted onto the streets last Saturday as tens of thousands protested across the country—from Edinburgh to Bristol.

The Tory cuts are tearing into the futures of young people.

In the 1950s the establishment joked that a sign should hang outside the elite Eton private school reading, "Cabinet makers to Her Majesty the Queen". Depressingly the same thing could be said again in the early 21st century.

The Tories are using Britain’s budget deficit to justify an assault on the working class. The deficit—the gap between government spending and tax revenues—is currently around £155 billion. They say this is so high that they have no choice but to cut spending to reduce it.

In their desperate drive to slash spending, the Tories are targeting the most vulnerable.

London’s firefighters were set to strike this Saturday, in the first big walkout since the Tories launched their cuts onslaught.

Thousands of trade unionists protested in central London on Tuesday to oppose Tory plans to make massive public spending cuts in Wednesday’s comprehensive spending review.

On Monday night more than 1,000 teaching assistants, teachers and workers protested in Nottingham Market Square against Tory cuts.