In this week's issue:

The Socialist 10 February 2010, issue Fight University Cuts

Fight university cuts

Since last autumn, when the vice chancellor of Sussex University announced a savage programme of job losses and cuts, we have been organising protests through our 'Stop the Cuts' campaign (StC), writes Claire Laker Mansfield, Sussex Socialist Students.

Fighting leadership needed in Unison - Nominate Roger Bannister for general secretary

Whoever wins the general election, members of Britain's largest public sector union Unison, like all other public service workers, are in for a hard time...

Greenwich Unison backs victimised branch secretary

Preying on the living and dead

Vampire capitalism: Socialist Party general secretary, Peter Taaffe, comments on an interview with film director Michael Moore by Chris McGreal in the Guardian (30/1/10)...

Waltham Forest: Campaigners score a victory

Fiddling MPs: Jail the whole lot of them!

Vulnerable lose out on benefits

Socialist Women: Fighting for equality through socialism

Fast news

Civil service strike ballot: Vote 'yes' for action

The ballot organised by the civil service union PCS for industrial action over plans to change the Civil Service Compensation Scheme has begun, writes John McInally, national vice-president PCS, personal capacity.

Boycotting the 2010 SATS in schools

Coventry youth workers' strike

Metaldyne workers strike

Stoke: Axiom workers in overtime ban

Saving jobs and services in Worcestershire

Workplace news in brief

Hazel Blears must go

Around 80 people packed into a Hazel Must Go campaign meeting in Salford on Thursday 4 February to decide who would stand as a candidate to rival disgraced local Labour party MP and former cabinet minister Hazel Blears in the general election, writes Alex McElroy and Paul Gerrard, Salford Socialist Party.

TUSC: Wellingborough socialists make a stand

PCS young members network conference

Almost one hundred young civil servants gathered in Birmingham to discuss continuing to build the PCS young members' network in 2010, writes Kyly Wilson.

Bristol job centre workers fight transfer

Trade unions in Britain - are they ready for the coming battles?

Recently, chancellor Alistair Darling said that halving the government's deficit in four years was 'non-negotiable'...

Northern Ireland: An agreement to cement division

ON 5 FEBRUARY the DUP and Sinn Fein agreed a deal on policing, justice and parades. The deal was announced in triumph as a "historic breakthrough" by First Minister Peter Robinson of the DUP and his...

Sri Lanka President Rajapakse removes his rival, Fonseka

Tamil Solidarity -: Successful northern conference

Trotskyism on trial

Unison witch-hunt: Employment Tribunal: Trade union activists expect class bias in the courts and employment tribunals. But rarely has a tribunal delivered such a blatantly biased judgment based on class interest. The employment tribunal judge...

Armed forces: Release Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton

JOE GLENTON, a Lance-Corporal in the logistics corps, was always described by his superiors as a model soldier, writes Christian Bunke.

Trade union rights for service personnel