The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY
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Trade unionists must unite workplaces and communities in refusing to pay for the cost-of-living crisis — that means industrial militancy and building locally towards a mass demo this summer, writes LYNN HENDERSON
The massive TUC March for the Alternative makes its way through central London, March 2011
Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD
KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement
A landmark UN resolution led by Ghana declares the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity — but Western opposition and abstentions reveal enduring resistance to historical accountability, write ISAAC SANEY and JAMES COUNTS EARLY
The new BBC director-general now faces a test of public scrutiny, with his record at McKinsey and lack of newsroom experience under the spotlight, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
LAST FRIDAY on April Fool’s Day every household faced the first rise in fuel bills from the private-sector utilities companies that have so much control over our lives. And this is just the start.
The day before that turned out to be a sick joke for civil and public servants too, as the government published the Treasury Pay Remit, forcing public-sector employers to limit pay rises for government staff to 2 per cent. Whilst Scottish government workers’ pay sits outside the pay remit, it is normal for devolved governments of all political shades to merely put a tartan cover over the British remit.
By the second day of April, trade unionists and community campaigners in 25 towns and cities came together under the banner of the People’s Assembly to protest over the cost-of-living crisis.
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Here are the voices of DANIEL KEBEDE, FRAN HEATHCOTE, HOLLY TURNER and LEANNE MOHAMAD explaining why they will be taking part in the People’s Assembly No More Austerity demo next weekend
