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Mike Marqusee looks back at the rate-capping revolt of the 1980s, and how close it came to victory
'Most people are not cold-blooded and are quite shocked when they learn how low benefits actually are'
The People’s Assembly will bring together thousands of anti-cuts campaigners and trade unionists in June. Red Pepper asks Owen Jones what the assembly might add to existing anti‑cuts initiatives
Local Labour councillor Edward Davie says Red Pepper’s recent article on Lambeth’s ‘co-operative council’ was disappointing. Below, council trade unionist Jon Rogers responds
Warren Clark explains how the success of the campaign against workfare has put the policy’s future in doubt
Isabelle Koksal reports on how Lambeth’s ‘co-operative council’ is riding roughshod over co-operative principles in its drive for sell-offs and cuts in local services
The scale of coalition cuts means the very future of local public services is in jeopardy. Michael Calderbank asks whether Labour councillors can do more than offer verbal protest and practical acquiescence
Lorna Stephenson reports on how cuts are hitting elderly care – and what the newly privatised sector looks like
As the Paralympics open, disabled people are facing an onslaught of cuts. But as Lorna Stephenson discovers, disabled activists are a force to be reckoned with
Video: Footage from the UK Uncut London street party on 26 May
As the summer holidays approach, Lorna Stephenson investigates the impact of cuts on playschemes and youth centres
Joseph Healy, a founder member of the Green Left, explains why he left the Green Party of England and Wales
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing candidates for the London assembly and elsewhere in the local elections on 3 May. Red Pepper spoke to Nick Wrack, a member of the TUSC national committee and number two on its slate of candidates in London
Ramblers’ rights are about more than just a few footpaths, says Mike Parker
Anne-Marie O’Reilly and Warren Clark report on plans to extend ‘welfare-to-work’
Canadian trade unionists Michael Hurley and Sam Gindin propose new strategies for a labour movement facing new challenges
Anne-Marie O’Reilly presents a roundtable discussion of grassroots community organisers
Jon Robins investigates what the cuts will mean for the vital advice that Citizens Advice Bureaux provide
Student article competition winner Kit Withnail calls for others to stand with the movement
Ken Ferguson asks how the Scottish left can respond to anger at the Westminster cuts consensus
Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, Lewisham... Jim Cranshaw and Emma Hughes talk to local anti-cuts campaigners
Bob Colenutt on the reaction of local government to the cuts, and the influence of the May council elections.
Donald Morrison reports on a community social enterprise in Salford
Do councillors have no choice but to deliver the cuts hammer blow, or can they fight back? Michael Calderbank investigates
Richard Goulding investigates the reality behind the 'Big Society' rhetoric
We should extend libraries far beyond books, argues Tim Hunt
Donald Morrison looks at the struggle to save our libraries
UK companies are sitting on £600 billion, writes Duncan Weldon
Clifford Singer talks to Paul Mackney from the new 'Coalition of Resistance'
Hugo Radice looks at the Tories' so-called Office for Budget Responsibility and its role in the coalition's cuts agenda
To respond effectively to the coming onslaught, we will have to engage with a deep crisis of working class confidence. To do so requires not only vigorous, unapologetic counter-propaganda, but collective action
The Conservative-Lib Dem coalition plans to complete the dismantling of the welfare state and penalise the vulnerable, argues Robert Taylor. We need a new progressive strategy on employment
The government and the press say we are in the grip of a debt crisis caused by the 'bloated' public sector. Here, Red Pepper debunks the myths used to push cuts to jobs and public services
The coalition could be making a massive mistake if it believes that resistance will be confined to an isolated rump of beleaguered union activists and 'usual suspect' protesters, writes Michael Calderbank
The coalition's cuts will hit women hardest, says Tim Hunt, as he lays out a gender audit of the budget
The feminist fightback against cuts needs to come from the grassroots, says Siobhan McGuirk
Grass-roots women's campaigns are mobilising to fight the cuts on the frontline. Red Pepper spoke to women from five organisations, who explained how they are working to combat the impacts of the cutbacks
The BBC has barely been out of the headlines in recent months, not least since the publication of its major strategy review. Siobhan McGuirk asked trade unionists and industry figures what they think needs to change at the corporation
With public sector spending cuts the new orthodoxy, the trade union movement needs to mobilise a stronger counter-attack, argues Heather Wakefield of public sector union Unison
Rolling back the new 'common sense' of spending cuts may seem like a difficult job, but it's not impossible, says Mike Marqusee
