U.K. Teacher Strikes Reveal Public Sector Unrest As Trade Union Power Grows

A series of teacher strikes over pensions, pay and conditions in England and Wales are the most recent example of larger nationwide resistance to austerity and privatizations.

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Greeks Stage Nationwide Anti-Austerity Strike Ahead of Merkel Visit

Greeks have lost about a third of their disposable income since the debt crisis started, and unemployment has soared, leaving more than 1 in 4 people jobless.

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British Law Is Failing As Student Protesters Demand End to Austerity

Incorporated with the coalition government’s pro-business austerity agenda, the right to protest has faced severe cuts in Britain.

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Making the Case for Doubling the Corporate Income Tax

U.S. corporations need to pay for the many years of employee productivity and public research that built their trillion-dollar industries.

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Young Europeans Against Austerity Launch "Troika Party" to Run in 2014

“This type of campaigning will play a key role in bringing political messages to sectors of the population that are not yet politicized," says Spain's Emma Avilés, "contributing to the multi-level European struggle against the E.U. crisis regime.”

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Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity

Complementing other British anti-austerity movements in recent years, UK Uncut has proved perhaps the most successful at mobilizing activists from across the country to challenge corporate evasion of taxes.

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Britains Remember Their Victims of Austerity

10,000 white flowers were placed on the green before the U.K. Parliament, each flower representing a person with disability who died within three months of assessment by Atos, a private British healthcare assessor.

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Portland's Austerity Resistance Movement Sparks Changes to City Budget

The false claim that Portland is broke was a strategy meant to rig the outcome of the hearings, push aside the issue of economic inequality, and leave communities fighting amongst themselves for crumbs.

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