99% get pay cuts under the Tories

A shocking 99 percent of workers suffered below-inflation pay deals last year, according to a new report from the TUC

Children led a march last Saturday against plans to force their schools to become academies

A profit-making company will run a Suffolk school on a ten year contract worth £21 million

Education secretary Michael Gove used the latest school league table results to accelerate his drive to privatise schools

More unions have called for strikes in March to defend public sector pensions

The latest union membership figures show that unions grow when they fight back

The NUT teachers’ union is pushing for a coordinated, national public sector strike in March over pensions

Scottish education union EIS will lobby other education unions to organise a joint strike as soon as possible

As European leaders met in Belgium on Monday to plot more austerity, the country was rocked by a general strike

The government’s benefit-busting Welfare Reform Bill was set to return to the House of Commons on Wednesday of this week

Four employees of the Sun newspaper were arrested as part of the ongoing corruption scandal over News International (NI) and the Metropolitan Police last week

Evidence that was supposedly destroyed by police—which led to the collapse of a multi-million pound police corruption trial—has been found

Police in Strathclyde are to reopen investigations into what murder lawyer Aamer Anwar has dubbed the “Scottish Stephen Lawrence case”

Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley has been slapped in the face by leading medical publications over his attacks on the NHS

Protesters were evicted from Occupy London’s “Bank of Ideas” on Monday—and nearly run over by a bailiff

University applications from students in England have fallen by 8

Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan was freed from jail on Monday after a year inside

More than 16,000 homes were repossessed in the last three months of 2011—the highest for three years

The Tories are to exclude thousands of vocational courses currently classed as equivalent to GCSEs from school league tables

Soldiers from the Parachute Regiment are being trained to be deployed if there are more riots in Britain

The racist English Defence League (EDL) has received police permission to march through Leicester on Saturday

A key strategist and funder behind the English Defence League (EDL) has been suspended from his management post at a major international development bank

EDL thugs like to pretend they are “peaceful protesters”

Mohammed, the editor of the Revolutionary Socialists' weekly paper, talks to Judith Orr in Cairo

Socialist Worker editor Judith Orr reports from Tahrir Square in Cairo a year after the fall of Hosni Mubarak

Up to 200 people blockaded Regent Street in central London today, Saturday, in opposition to attacks on disabled people in the government’s Welfare Reform Bill

Lecturers in the UCU union met for a higher education sector conference on Tuesday of this week

Video: Egyptian revolutionary Gigi Ibrahim speaks in London online only

Gigi Ibrahim on how can the Egyptian Revolution win

Millionaire bankers and bosses are furious that RBS chief executive Stephen Hester has been forced to give up his obscene bonus

Climate change could be good for British businesses, according to Tory environment secretary Caroline Spelman

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The revolution in Syria is moving closer to the centre of power in the country—and the regime is responding with brutality

Thousands marched in 27 cities around the US last Sunday in solidarity with Occupy Oakland in California

Government workers in Zimbabwe struck for four days last week, demanding a doubling of their wages, medical insurance and travel allowances

In defence of the Ultras: their message and our response What message was the crime committed against the Ahly Ultras—that killed more than 75 martyrs—meant to deliver? Was it to punish the forces and groups that 
participated in the revolution and that still continue to oppose the SCAF [The ruling army council]? This crime occurred on the anniversary of the "Battle of the Camel"—was it meant to confirm that those responsible for that battle still have their influence and power and can commit new crimes?

The Stephen Lawrence verdict was right, but we should be cautious of re-trials, writes Brian Richardson

European Union (EU) leaders held yet another summit meeting this week as the crisis of the euro continued

Many look to developing economies such as China to come to the rescue of Western capitalism—but these countries aren’t immune from the instability of whole system, argues Dave Sewell

Judith Orr was in Cairo for the anniversary of the start of the Egyptian Revolution to report on how the revolt is developing

We started marching from different parts of Alexandria on the morning of 25 January

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Madonna’s new film is cinematically dull and politically dreadful, writes Anindya Bhattacharyya

Siân Ruddick reviews John Keane’s anti-war exhibition at London’s Flowers Gallery

Alan Turing was one of the 20th century’s pioneering mathematicians

OutStories Bristol aims to collate and preserve the social history of LGBT people in Bristol

Stagecoach bus drivers in Barnsley and Rawmarsh have stepped up their fight to improve their wages

The Unite union in London has launched a campaign to win £500 bonus payments for its bus drivers to cover the Olympics period

Cleaners in the RMT union on the Channel Tunnel rail network have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action over pay

Around 100 people joined a picket line at Montgomery Primary School in Birmingham on Wednesday of last week

Activists gathered in central London last Saturday to discuss the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) campaign for this year’s local elections

Remploy workers in the Unite and GMB unions struck in Glasgow and Chesterfield on Thursday of last week

Waltham Forest Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Amnesty International held a Holocaust Memorial Day public meeting at Harmony Hall in Walthamstow last Sunday

Workers employed by Initial at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London protested last week against an attack on Len Hockey, a porter and their joint Unison branch secretary

Sixth form teachers in the NUT union have voted overwhelmingly for strikes in two ballots

Around 60 activists attended an organising conference of the UCU Left last Saturday

Striking tanker drivers are in a buoyant mood as they prepare for more strikes on Thursday of this week after talks with management broke down

The second wave of strikes to defend pensions at consumer giant Unilever concluded last weekend

The result of the strike vote of electricians at Balfour Beatty is due this week

Revenue and Customs (HMRC) workers struck on Tuesday against privatisation

Council workers in Barnet, north London, plan to strike for a third time against privatisation on Thursday of next week

Newspaper journalists at Newsquest in Essex are taking industrial action against a pay freeze

The National Gallery in London was largely closed last Saturday as gallery assistants in the PCS union walked out for two hours from 4pm

Scores of drivers at Leeds-Bradford Airport’s private hire taxi provider walked out on Friday of last week after 11 of them were suspended

The Right to Work campaign in Scotland held its annual general meeting in Glasgow last Saturday

Nearly 200 people packed the Finsbury Park Mosque to attend a brilliant launch public meeting of Islington Unite Against Fascism (UAF) on Wednesday of last week

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