George Osborne’s AAA: austerity austerity austerity - rejected!

Tory education secretary Michael Gove is waging war on teachers and trade unions should take action to stop his attacks

Tory chancellor George Osborne’s AAA (Arrogant Austerity Attacks) are in a mess

Services have been slashed in cities across Britain, but campaigners are arguing for resistance to more cuts

There was a real development in the Jimmy Savile scandal last week, while the media focused on documents about why the BBC didn’t run its Newsnight investigation

Some 200 students, school students, trade unionists and campaigners protested at the Cambridge Union Society today, Tuesday, against French fascist Marine Le Pen

Some 20 supporters of the Nazi English Defence League (EDL) asked police to escort them out of central Cambridge early as they were outnumbered by a counter protest

Around 12 members of the English Defence League (EDL) tried to attack an anti-cuts demonstration in Manchester’s Albert square last Saturday

Some 250,000 PCS union members in the civil service have entered the last week of a strike ballot over attacks on their pay, conditions and pensions

Private Firms will be given a new advantage over public bodies in the race for millions of pounds worth of NHS contracts

Tory cuts are slashing adult social care services that people with mental health problems rely upon

The Tories are feeling the heat over the planned bedroom tax, which will penalise benefit claimants in social housing for having “too many” rooms

The number of women in positions of power in Britain has fallen over the last decade according to a new report

Tories let big tax dodgers off HM revenue & Customs last week published a list of nine businesses and traders who have avoided tax

The Tories are scrabbling to regain the initiative after losing a central plank of their economic strategy

The Tories have leapt on figures showing that official employment in Britain is at a record high

It seems there isn’t enough outrage in the world for right wing hypocrites to throw at Heather Frost of Tewkesbury

The week in quotes

We’ve all been there

Fancy moving in the same elite circles as David Cameron, Boris Johnson and George Osborne?

Just why are so many people desperate to work in coffee shops?

Who can the people of Manchester expect to see on their streets when the racist English Defence League (EDL) tries to march there this Saturday?

Palestinian film-maker Emad Burnat thought he’d get a break from life under occupation when he travelled to the US last week

The figures that tell all

The “truly British family” of James and Emily Bradshaw is determined to go a year without buying anything foreign

Simon Assaf argues that Syrian rebels should resist calls for Western intervention, despite the regime’s superior firepower

A general strike paralysed Greece today, Wednesday

European stock markets panicked as results of last week’s Italian general election were announced

There were huge demonstrations against cuts in cities across Spain on Saturday of last week

Shocking testimony to the ongoing inquiry into South Africa’s Marikana massacre was heard last week

Tens of millions of workers struck across India on Wednesday and Thursday of last week as its government prepares to pass a harsh austerity budget

Mass protests forced the resignation of Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borisov’s government on Wednesday of last week

What is the shooting case of Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius really about? First, it’s about sport, celebrity, and money

David Cameron visited the city of Amritsar in India’s Punjab region last week

Southwark council in south London has destroyed an estate and sold the land to a private firm for a pittance – Dave Sewell investigates

Only one of the homes on the vast Heygate Estate remains occupied

A few miles up the Thames from Elephant and Castle, the enormous Nine Elms regeneration project is already underway

Socialist Worker looks at how the growing threat of fascism across Europe can be challenged as Unite Against Fascism holds its annual conference in London

The fortunes of the British National Party (BNP) and English Defence League (EDL) may be in decline right now but there can be no room for complacency

Bedroom tax is another attack on disabled people | Who values the family? | Sexism at the Games | Don’t blame immigrants | Well done to BBC strikers | Say no to cuts in Newcastle | Are private jails better? | Gove wants narrow minds | Labour should oppose war

The retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop Art at London’s Tate Modern is accessible, refreshingly diverse and hugely enjoyable, says Siobhan Brown

From the opening credits of Mayday you could think you have sat down to watch the cosy country crime of Midsomer Murders

Edith Tudor-Hart—In the Shadow of Tyranny Photographer Edith Tudor‑Hart left her native Austria for Britain after being arrested as a Communist in 1933

After Britain cut aid to India, Dave Sewell looks at the real reasons for the shift – and how states use aid to further their own interests, not poor people’s

Giant aid organisations are inseparable from the British establishment that pays for them

The Department for International Development runs its own investment fund, the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC)

Management at London Metropolitan University have stepped up their witch hunt of union activists

Sussex university occupiers protest Students occupying a building at Sussex university protested on Thursday of last week

Teachers at Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, Ealing west London, were set to strike on Thursday of this week over conditions

Forty two BP tanker drivers struck last weekend at the Grangemouth oil refinery near Glasgow

Birmingham university strike UCU union members at Birmingham University were set to walk out on Thursday of this week to defend jobs

Trade unionists, anti‑cuts activists and others are preparing for Unite the Resistance conferences to help build the fight against the Tories

The prosecution concluded its case in the retrial of student protesters Alfie Meadows and Zak King on Monday of this week

Cleaners on the Tyne and Wear Metro struck for seven days last week in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions

Rank and file activist Jerry Hicks has been confirmed as the only challenger in the race to become general secretary of the Unite union

Reject council pay offer of 1 percent | Olympic cyclists’ trial has started | London Overground security protests | Lincolnshire cuts are bridge too far

Construction firm Carillion faces allegations of human rights violations

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