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Strike together to smash the pay freeze
Millions of us have suffered a huge drop in our living standards as the bankers, bosses and Tories have made us pay for their crisis. Jeremy Dewar explains why we…
Going all out to win at Lambeth College
By Jeremy Dewar Like many further education establishments, Lambeth College is facing devastating cuts. Unlike most, however, its workforce has come out fighting – in an all-out indefinite strike. Teachers…
The TUC’s failures: right and left
When the Tories cobbled together the Con-Dem Coalition in May 2010, they were clear about how they were going to tackle the economic downturn – by making the working class pay…
Say YES to a General Strike!
 After TUC motion agrees to â€?consider’ general strike, step up the pressure for real action By a sizeable majority, TUC delegates have voted for a motion moved by the…
London Met: thousands face deportation in racist crackdown
JUSTâ€?WEEKS after London was touted as a multicultural paradise during the Olympics, international students at London Metropolitan University have been told to find a new university place or face deportation.…
Pensions dispute: PCS union leaders betray struggle and call off strike
Civil Servants in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have voted overwhelmingly to reject pension cuts and to take further strike action, yet the union leadership today called off…
Editorial: We need to get organised
Resistance is growing to Cameron and Clegg’s vicious cuts programme. There is a wave of enthusiasm for the 30 June strikes – civil servants from the PCS union, teachers and…
All out for 30 June!
THEâ€?FIGHTâ€?against the cuts is taking a big step forward on 30 June, with a string of unions now pledging to shut the country down in a mass public sector strike,…
All together for our pensions – UCU lecturers prepare to strike
University lecturers are preparing to strike against a massive attack on their pensions. Across the public sector, the Con-Dem government are tearing up existing pension agreements (see article on Hutton…
The great pensions robbery
“There’s got to be a deal here between the taxpayer and the scheme member and that deal is going to unravel if the people in the public sector say they…
