Lead story

Bedroom tax in disarray

by Daphne Liddle

IAN DUNCAN Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has retreated a few steps on the imposition of the now notorious “bedroom tax” after being challenged in the courts.

The “tax” is a cut in housing benefit to all claimants, whether they are tenants in the public or private sector, if they are deemed by the local authority to have more bedrooms than they absolutely need.

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Syria: Cameron plots to arm rebels

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

THE CAMERON government is threatening to veto the European Union’s ban on arms shipments to Syria to pave the way for open imperialist support for the rebels fighting to bring down the Baathist-led popular front government in Damascus.

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Editorial

The fulcrum of the struggle

BRITAIN is currently embroiled in the most devastating and damaging class war in its history and the tragedy is that only one side — the ruling class — is doing all the fighting while we, the working class, are taking all the damage and failing to fight back in a properly organised and effective way.

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