Don’t get between me and my profits – Alan Hardman cartoon, photo Alan Hardman
Socialist Party campaigns
Nominate 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
Notts 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
TUSC 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.
Socialist Party news and analysis
New 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.
Ministers and MI5 colluded in the cover-up of torture
Workplace analysis
The 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…
Oppose university cuts – defend jobs
Socialist Students
Sussex 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
Youth fight for jobs
Youth 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
Socialist Party feature
Wales: 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
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International socialist news and analysis
Greece: 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.
Capitalist crisis threatens the eurozone project