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Editorial

No excuse for drone killings

Foreign Minister Alistair Burt's admission that the Cameron government has "supported" a survey of attitudes to US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas amounts to a tacit admission of British involvement.

Features

The Nigel buildings rent strike

by Richard Maunders

As Britain faces a new housing crisis we can learn from an occasion when tenants banded together to beat their landlord - and won new council housing

The truth about universal credit

by Michael Meacher

Iain Duncan Smith's brainchild came into force at the end of last month. It's bad news for almost everyone

Britain

Woman fasts in solidarity with Guantanamo strikers

Thursday 16 May 2013

A British peace activist will launch a 24-hour fast tomorrow in solidarity with prisoners at US concentration camp Guantanamo Bay.

Hodge mauls Google over tax avoidance

Thursday 16 May 2013

Commons public accounts committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge savaged Google vice-president Matt Brittin at a hearing today after he attempted to justify the internet giant's minuscule British tax bill.

Firefighters set to strike over pensions

Thursday 16 May 2013

Firefighters put the government on notice today that they will take national strike action unless it steps back from planned pension cuts.

Lavery slams privatisation

Thursday 16 May 2013

Labour MP Ian Lavery urged workers to struggle to their "dying breath" against Con-Dem privatisation plans today.

AWE admits to safety failings

Thursday 16 May 2013

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), which makes and maintains nuclear warheads for Trident, has admitted safety failures and putting employees at risk.

Firefighters expose Tory 'Trojan horse' on co-ops

Thursday 16 May 2013

Tory ministers are using co-operatives as a "Trojan horse" to privatise fire and rescue services, firefighters warned today.

Officers 'traumatised by deaths'

Thursday 16 May 2013

Delegates warned today that deaths in prison are causing huge problems for staff, who often struggle to cope.

'Brutal' RBS slashes 1,400 jobs

Thursday 16 May 2013

Bank workers shamed a "brutal and irresponsible" RBS for announcing 1,400 job cuts the day after news that unemployment had risen to 2.52 million.

Fitness tests 'have to go'

Thursday 16 May 2013

Prison officers urged the National Offender Management Service today to commit to modernising its fitness tests.

School staff balloted

Thursday 16 May 2013

Support staff at a Leicester school will be balloted on strike action over plans to sack eight teaching assistants.