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  • 7 Dec 2012
    Chancellor Osborne accused of 'waging a war on reality'

    Scottish Greens say the UK Chancellor's economic and energy plans fail to respond to a world of staggering inequality and the urgent need to cut carbon.

  • 11 Oct 2012
    Families, fortunes and David Cameron

    The government wants “To set our country back on the path to prosperity that all can share in” and “mend a broken society”, claimed UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the Conservative Party conference on 10 October. Despite national policies inflicting deepening misery on the poorest in society, and promises by his ministers of more of the same, he was seeking to portray his leadership as compassionate and inclusive.

  • 26 Sep 2012
    Regional pay plans damaging and unfair says TUC poll

    Government plans for regional pay in the public sector are unfair and would be bad for NHS patients and pupils in poorer areas, according to polling published by the TUC.

  • 14 Feb 2012
    Archbishop of Greece warns of social upheaval over massive cuts

    Archbishop Hieronymos II of Athens and All Greece has warned the Greek government of a possible social upheaval if more austerity measures are ushered in by international financial institutions overseeing the sovereign debt crisis.

  • 30 Nov 2011
    November 30: the day 'divide and rule' was exposed

    “We're all in this together” has never seemed so cynically mendacious as it does today (30 November) – the day after the Chancellor's Autumn Statement and the day on which public service workers are taking part in the largest organised day of action for a generation.

  • 30 Nov 2011
    Workers plan to raise money for good causes during strike

    A union initiative will give savings from today's 'pension robbery' and anti-cuts strike to grassroots groups fighting poverty in Britain.

  • 29 Nov 2011
    Green MSPs will back Scottish union rally and strikes

    Green MSPs in Scotland have confirmed their support for 30 November coordinated strike action against the UK government's public sector 'assault'.

  • 29 Nov 2011
    Day of Action to target austerity and cuts as well as pensions robbery

    Wednesday 30 November will see the first mass strike across Britain for four decades, as public sector workers protest against pension cuts.