The Tories declare class war - fight back now

There are urgent steps to take—and vital arguments to be won—to create a movement powerful enough to defeat the Tories’ 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

Students are facing a pincer movement of attacks as the government and its business allies prepare to slash higher education spending and push up fees

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

The Tories want to force council tenants who earn anything more than poverty wages out of their homes

Tory peer Lord Young launched a determined attack on workers when he advised the government to weaken existing health and safety legislation on Friday of last week

Jimmy Mubenga died after he was manhandled onto a British Airways flight to Angola during an attempted forced deportation

Black people are 27 times more likely to face stop and search by the police than whites

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

Coaches are booked from over 30 towns and cities across Britain to the national demonstration and carnival against racism, fascism and Islamophobia on 6 November in central London

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

Newport in South Wales is a city already facing up to the bleak consequences of Tory cuts

Tower Hamlets in east London was the scene of a hotly contested election for mayor this week

Sotheby Mews Day Centre, Islington, north London, is typical of the thousands of crucial services the Tory cuts will destroy

What's on this week

Tens of thousands of people were set to protest, march and rally this Saturday, 23 October, against the Tories’ brutal cuts

RMT members working on London’s tube are being advised not to work during the firefighters’ strike in the capital this Saturday if their safety can’t be guaranteed

People around the country are protesting against the savage Tory cuts in George Osborne's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR)

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Crown prosecution service drop case against anti-EDL protester after viewing television footage showing defendant being beaten by police

Multi-millionaire George Osborne’s class war spending cuts will leave millions of ordinary people without vital services and drive up poverty and inequality

Thousands of people took to the streets across Britain as the details of the cuts became clear

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Socialist Worker looks at where he wants the axe to fall

protests have started against the cuts

The spending review is a declaration of war on the working class

London's firefighters need every trade unionist and activist in the city to join them during their strike this Saturday as they launch mass pickets against scabs

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Reports and pictures will be updated through the day [updated Saturday 6

Striking London firefighters scored a huge victory against management's scabbing operation today (Saturday)

As the scabs tried to get the fire engines back into the bosses’ base, a mass picket of London firefighters hounded every last one of them, late into the night

George Osborne’s spending cuts are a declaration of brutal class war

Quotes from the week's news

The fightback in France against attacks on pensions has shown magnificent resistance

Protests rocked Athens on Thursday of last week, as Greek workers and students continued their fight against cuts

Up to one million workers marched in Rome on Saturday against finance minister Giulio Tremonti’s deficit reduction plans

The fifth Viva Palestina convoy from Britain is nearing Gaza

An NPA video showing French workers striking and protesting around the country

The fifth Viva Palestina convoy from Britain has reached Gaza

French workers and students continued their inspiring strikes in Thursday, as the movement comes to a critical point

History teaches us that state bans don’t work—and have been used against anti-fascists

Two news stories this week give the lie to the myth that people are naturally selfish

Ken Olende looks at what happened to the ‘wind of change’, and hopes for a new era

Simon Basketter uncovers the Tories’ parallel universe

The Tories are using Britain’s budget deficit to justify an assault on the working class

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Walid Raad says his work “was in some ways made possible by the wars in Lebanon”

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Workers at Plymouth bed manufacturer Vi-Spring are continuing their industrial action for another three weeks

More RMT transport union branches are backing the call to extend the strikes on London Underground in the battle for jobs and safety

Workers at Arriva Trains Wales are taking unofficial action over an “unacceptable” pay offer and conditions

Bus drivers at CT Plus’s Ash Grove garage in Hackney, east London, struck on Friday of last week in their battle for decent pay

Maintenance workers employed by Babcock Nuclear Services struck on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week in a row over pay

The election for general secretary of Britain’s biggest union begins next Monday when Unite sends out ballot papers to over a million members

The government is planning to resume forced deportations of “failed asylum seekers” to Zimbabwe

Warehouse staff at Oxford University Press (OUP) struck on Tuesday of last week and plan two days of strikes this week

A new offer may be on the cards at British Airways (BA)—but cabin crew have no details of it

The Unite union will ballot workers at Tyneside Safety Glass on a new pay offer

Workers at the BBC are voting on a new offer proposed by management

The UCU lecturers’ union will hold a special sector conference in Manchester on 25 November

Our workplace collection week has proved a success, with a wide range of Socialist Worker readers raising money for the appeal

Up to 150 people came to a council “drop-in” session on Friday of last week to oppose the demolition of Shepherd’s Bush Market

Have teachers, parents, governors, the headteacher and the local MP all been lied to about St Aloysius College in Islington?

Strikes at Tunnock’s bakery in Lanarkshire have ended after the union came to a new pay deal

Around 50 people came to the launch of the updated ‘One Million Climate Jobs’ pamphlet in the House of Commons on Thursday 14 October

More than 200 hospital workers in Buckinghamshire have voted to ballot for strikes

Croydon council, the Home Office and other public bodies are pushing through thousands of job cuts in the south London borough

Families and friends of people who have died in police custody will march thorough central London on Saturday 30 October

Taxi drivers in Manchester have threatened “a winter of strikes” in protest at council plans to introduce a new penalty points scheme

Postal workers in Stevenage are preparing to march to defend their mail centre, which Royal Mail is threatening to close

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