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Would it be irresponsible to call a general strike against the cuts?

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A false dawn before the last hurrah?
Hurrah! The coalition’s medicine is working, the economy is back in growth, Britain is heading out of the woods and the credit rating agencies have delivered their critical clean bill of health.

Schools now unfit for purpose
Ellie Reeves outlines the dangerous consequences of the decision to axe the school building programme

The tide of history leaves Western Sahara high and dry
Political pressure is the only way to end the conflict, say Ken Loach and Stefan Simanowitz

A false dawn before the last hurrah?
Hurrah! The coalition’s medicine is working, the economy is back in growth, Britain is heading out of the woods and the credit rating agencies have delivered their critical clean bill of health.
Coalition divisions over housing benefit cap as Labour MPs accuse Clegg of ‘social cleansing’
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith was last week widely reported to have held meetings with junior coalition partners the Liberal Democrats, London Mayor Boris Johnson and local authority chiefs to consider whether his proposed cap on housing benefit to £400 a week should be reconsidered.
Johnson prescribes an alternative: investment and a tax shift
The shape of a new Labour alternative economic strategy has been unveiled by Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson
After the speculation the reality: a million jobs to be axed and public services to be devastated
he Government announced its intention to take £81 billion out of public spending over the next four years and eliminate the structural deficit in five years.
Answers sought over housing cuts
George Osborne’s announcement of cuts and changes to social housing raises more questions than it answers, Shadow Housing Minister Alison Seabeck told Tribune.
Mr Osborne said affordable housebuilding funding would be cut by 60 per cent to 2014-15, a total of £4 billion. The Government plans to build 150,000 affordable homes over the same period, funded [...]