Protesters from across Britain demonstrated yesterday outside the London offices of the TV production company which produced the "hatchet job" programme Benefit Street.
The Unite union's community arm mobilised members to protest outside Love Productions, accusing it of misrepresenting and exploiting the issue of poverty in a "cynical grab for ratings."
Channel 4 provoked outrage and faced a storm of complaints after it began airing the series filmed on a Birmingham street.
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY


