Anti-austerity protesters bring country to a halt

Trade union members hold general strike against Michel government’s cuts

PM Orban’s government ‘a lie,’ says chilly protest leader

Ideological cuts and prices kick families out of London

Low-income families are being forced out of central London as a result of soaring rents and ideological government benefit cuts, new Labour Party r

Vince Cable slams ‘extreme’ cuts

Tory spending plans would “destroy” public services, Con-Dem collaborator Vince Cable warned yesterday.

Osborne should get down to a foodbank

The aristocratic Chancellor believes the cuts have not really hurt. But an Oldham foodbank volunteer tells Stephen Hallmark a very different story

Killing hope

As Christmas approaches, there’s little cheer since the coalition has taken so much from working-class people already, says Bernadette Horton

A&E in crisis, and it isn’t even busy yet

Ministers were warned yesterday that the NHS needs urgent action to help it cope over the winter after A&E waiting times hit record levels.

Esther McVey MP awarded ‘Scrooge of Year’ in Wirral

Trade unionists in Merseyside awarded the area’s only Tory MP “Scrooge of the Year” yesterday for her implementation of benefit sanctions.

Italian trade unionists take to streets in protest at Renzi jobs Act

Tens of thousands of Italians took to the streets of Rome yesterday in protest against austerity policies that are hitting working people’s lives h

Birmingham axes 1,000 jobs and cuts back library hours

One of Britain’s biggest local authorities announced it is to slash yet more jobs and services yesterday as Westminster cuts bite ever deeper.