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The Socialist issue 612

17 February 2010

Fight Council Cuts!

2010 Back issues


spotFight council cuts!

Don't get between me and my profits - Alan Hardman cartoon, photo Alan Hardman

Don’t get between me and my profits – Alan Hardman cartoon, photo Alan Hardman


Socialist Party campaigns

spotNominate Roger Bannister: Council workers need a fighting union

ROGER BANNISTER is a member of the Unison union’s national executive, and campaigning to stand for election as Unison general secretary…

Unison conference 2009: Roger Bannister, photo Paul Mattsson

Unison conference 2009: Roger Bannister, photo Paul Mattsson


spotNotts Tories attack the vulnerable

Kay Cutts, the aptly named Tory leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, said when elected last June that she would run a “business administration”, writes Jon Dale.

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

spotTUSC to fight cuts in Spelthorne

“I will refuse to take any more salary than I currently earn, if elected, and I will publish details of my salary and expenses online for my constituents to see, examine and to hold me to account as their representative”, writes North Surrey Socialist Party.

spotNew TUSC sponsors

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotNew health inequality report reveals widening class divide

“IN ENGLAND, people living in the poorest neighbourhoods, will, on average, die seven years earlier than people in the richest neighbourhoods” the health inequality report states, writes John Sharpe.

spotMinisters and MI5 colluded in the cover-up of torture

spotBNP’s phoney changes

spotFast news

Workplace analysis

spotThe construction industry blacklist: Paltry punishment for attacks on workers

Construction workers have been fighting an employers’ blacklist for many years. The big construction companies have been using it to try to stop workers on their sites joining trade unions and getting…

spotOppose university cuts – defend jobs

Socialist Students

spotSussex student union elections: Support for socialist campaigners

A busy week at Sussex University has left Socialist Students proud of the progress we’ve made, if a little exhausted, writes Sussex Socialist Students.

Sussex university students demonstrate, photo Socialist Students

Sussex university students demonstrate, photo Socialist Students


spotStudent places crisis

Youth fight for jobs

spotYouth Fight for Jobs: Leeds march for jobs and education

A loud, lively Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) demonstration stopped traffic and drew widespread support from shoppers in Leeds city centre on Saturday 13 February, writes Ian Slattery, Huddersfield Youth Fight for Jobs.

Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party

Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party


Socialist Party feature

spotWales: New challenges for socialists

Socialist Party Wales recently held a very successful conference in Swansea that discussed future developments in Wales…

Campaigners against youth unemployment from all over Wales converged on the Welsh Assembly on Wednesday to highlight the scourge of youth unemployment in Wales. , photo Sarah Mayo

Campaigners against youth unemployment from all over Wales converged on the Welsh Assembly on Wednesday to highlight the scourge of youth unemployment in Wales. , photo Sarah Mayo


spotCelebrate May Day this year with The Socialist

International socialist news and analysis

spotGreece: Massive public sector workers’ strike against savage austerity plans

HUNDREDS OF thousands of public sector workers took strike action in Greece on Wednesday 10 February, writes Andreas Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI Greece), Athens.

spotCapitalist crisis threatens the eurozone project

spotWinter Olympics: Shortage of snow but no shortage of debts?

spotProtests as Canada’s Tories suspend parliament

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