In this week's issue:

The Socialist 15 September 2009, issue Big business to blame for climate change

Big business to blame for climate change

Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

CLIMATE CHANGE is already with us. Temperatures are increasing, polar ice caps melting, glaciers retreating, sea levels rising, biodiversity being lost, food production being threatened, water scarcity...

No to cuts in jobs and services

TUC rally in Westminster against cuts in public spending, photo Paul Mattsson

ALL OF Britain's capitalist politicians aim to tackle the economic crisis of recession and public-sector debt by hitting out at vital public services and public-sector workers...

Capitalist market prescribes diet of cuts

TUC conference - reactions to Brown's speech

TUC conference: Fightback rally

End the Afghan nightmare now

Lincoln Socialist Party against war on Gaza, photo Lincoln Socialist Party

Death and destruction to prop up rotten regime: 'OPERATION PANTHER'S Claw' was intended to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the Afghan elections, writes Ken Douglas.

Nationalise Anglesey Aluminium to save jobs

THE RUNNING down of smelting facilities at Anglesey Aluminium is a devastating blow to the economy of Holyhead and the rest of the island of Anglesey, North Wales, writes Dylan Roberts and Iain Dalton.

Rover - Gangster capitalists were treated as saviours

London RMT: Discussing an election coalition

Leeds council workers on indefinite strike

National Greed

Construction workers' pay - reject the deal!

The fight against the building blacklist

Students left penniless

Fighting fees - student demonstration in central London, photo Rob Sutton

Higher education funding crisis: According to The Guardian 170,000 students face the prospect of starting term without the loans and grants they are entitled to, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Students national organiser.

Youth Fight for Jobs For real jobs For free education Demonstrate Saturday 28 November, London

Cardiff: Youth Fight for Jobs

College workers strike against vicious cuts

Vestas: the fight is far from over

Interview: At the Socialist Party's summer camp, Mark Smith and Mark Flowers, workers who had been in occupation at the St Cross Vestas wind turbine manufacturers on the Isle of Wight (IOW), spoke to The Socialist...

Coventry Socialist Party councillors show support for Vestas

Interview with POA leader Brian Caton

Socialist Party industrial organiser Bill Mullins recently interviewed Prison Officers Association (POA) general secretary Brian Caton...

Victory - Decent jobs not exploitation

Socialist Party members in Leytonstone, east London, held a protest on Thursday 10 September outside a local bar called Zulus, and scored a quick victory...

A life of revolution

Review: NIALL MULHOLLAND reviews A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths, at Shakespeare's Globe, South Bank, London until 9 October...

Japan: Election ends Liberal Democrats' 54-year reign

THE EDIFICE of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule has finally come tumbling down with the dramatic defeat it suffered in the Lower House elections on 30 August, writes Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (International Solidarity), CWI in Japan.

Bangladesh: Angry protests at police attacks

Sri Lanka: Defiant Tamil protest