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Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
PUBLIC sector workers across northern England went on strike in their hundreds of thousands yesterday.
In virtually every major northern town and city they took to the streets in demonstrations, marches and rallies to take to the public their message of opposition to the government’s vicious austerity and poverty wages.
The sun-blazed marches were a sea of colour with workers carrying the banners, flags and placards of their public-sector unions.
After battling hills, rain and injury in a three-day cycle ride ending at the CWU conference, MATT KERR reflects on why class unity remains the answer to injustice
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
ANN HENDERSON on the exciting programme planned for this summer’s festival in the Scottish capital