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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 29 April 2009, issue FIGHT for JOBS  Fight for jobs!
Youth Fight For Jobs demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson While bankers receive billions of pounds in bailouts, despite being responsible for triggering the economic collapse, hard-working people are faced with a diet of cuts in public services, tax hikes and lay-offs, writes Paul Callanan, Greenwich Socialist Students.
Youth Fight for Jobs launch conference
Olympics: Defend jobs, pay and conditions
Socialist Party election campaign
European elections: Build support for a workers' alternative to Labour Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, photo Paul Mattsson As convenor of No2EU - Yes to Democracy, I recently visited the Visteon factory in Basildon currently being blockaded by the sacked workforce, writes Bob Crow, General Secretary, RMT
Stop Press
STOP PRESS: Key union activist sacked Rob Williams addresses Socialist Party 'Support Visteon Workers' meeting in London, photo Paul Mattsson Socialist Party member Rob Williams, the Unite convenor of the Linamar car parts factory in Swansea, was called into the directors' office of the plant on Tuesday 28 April and told that he was being sacked for "irretrievable breakdown of trust"...
Socialist Party workplace news
Sacked workers protest in Newcastle Sacked Stead McAlpin workers protest in Newcastle, photo B Harkness WORKERS AT Stead McAlpin, who were sacked and given just 15 minutes to leave the factory, brought their protest to Newcastle where they picketed John Lewis at its shop inside Eldon Square shopping centre, writes Elaine Brunskill.
29 April 2009
Civil service: Workers fight cuts and sell-offs
THE TREASURY'S final report of the Operational Efficiency Programme (OEP) aims to cut government spending by £15 billion, a Land Registry worker writes.
29 April 2009
Visteon workers fight on
On 25 April Basildon town centre was practically taken over by Visteon workers and supporters during a day of action to highlight their fight for justice, writes Eleanor Donne, Basildon Socialist Party.
29 April 2009
Prisme workers win funding for jobs
After 51 days, we the workers at the Dundee Prisme factory have decided to end our occupation. The reason we have taken this decision is that it looks like we have secured funding to take our co-op venture...
29 April 2009
Little debate at Unison health conference
Any Unison members in the NHS who were hoping that this year's health conference would see the start of a fightback against job losses, cuts and privatisation will be hugely disappointed, writes Adrian O'Malley, Unison Health service group executive, personal capacity.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Budget 2009 - debts passed to all of us "Get ready for dirty hospitals and crumbling schools" warned a journalist following the government budget last week...
Does the 'botch it' budget benefit young people?
It's tough at the top!
Jack Jones obituary
International socialist news and analysis
Workers' internationalism: A history of the first four socialist international organisations The Committee for a Workers International protesting at the G8 summit 2005, photo Paul Mattsson Today, with world capitalism in its gravest crisis since the 1930s, there is a crying need for a mass political alternative of the working class. The task of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) is to help to create the conditions for the formation of such an international.
Sri Lanka war: Rajapakse regime ignores Tamils' plight in renewed army offensive
NUT feature
National Union of Teachers conference: Fighting "teaching-on-the-cheap" Linda Taaffe, at National Shop Stewards Network conference July 2007, photo Dave Carr For a few years now the composition of the leadership of the NUT has been changing. The main left groupings, the STA and CDFU work as one, and the previous right-wing controlling group has grown 'softer', writes Linda Taaffe
Hands off Lewisham Bridge school!
Being a new teacher - a shock to the system
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