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Supporters at a Syriza election rally in Athens in May 2014. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Syriza: the Greek road to socialism?

October’s TUC protest against austerity. Photo: with kind permission of Mark Kerrison

Lets make 2015 the year we break austerity

Syriza: facing down Europe’s pro-austerity elite

Syriza Party leader Alexis Tsipras at a party rally in Athens. Photo: Milos Bicanski Getty Images

Greece: Syriza close to office, elites close to panic

Teesside activists protested outside job centres on Wednesday to build the march. A vibrant and passionate march through the centre of Middlesbrough on Saturday drew media and public attention to punitive “sanctions” (the denial of benefit money) against social security claimants. Around 100 people took part in the protest.

Teesside marchers oppose punitive cuts to benefits

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Elaine Graham-Leigh

Protest outside Westbrook Partners HQ in Mayfair on December 1. Photo: The Guardian

Housing justice means council housing – New Era tenants take on the profiteers

People’s Assembly protest at Downing Street ahead of the Statement. Photo: Jim Thatcher

5 things you need to know about Osborne’s Autumn Statement

Angry: Jane Hautot with Andrew Lansley. Image Alamy

Warmongers and spin doctors: Iraq and the NHS

Will George Osborne make austerity the law?

16 February 2013: over 1000 march in Newcastle

Newcastle’s council cuts and the myth of the heroic civic leader

NHS workers in strike in 2014

NHS workers strike against the pay freeze

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