The Socialist

The Socialist 3 March 2010

Fighting for jobs, services and conditions

Fighting for jobs, services and conditions

PCS: All Out to Defend Jobs and Services

Stop council cuts


Invest in jobs, education & Training

Cut the working hours, not the jobs!

Portsmouth students and workers unite to fight cuts

Brighton students say: Save our nursery

EMA inadequacy impacts badly on students


Building action across Europe

Greece - millions take part in general strike

Spain: Thousands join mass demonstrations


The fairytale world of RBS

Nationalise the energy giants

Activists launch socialist challenge

Walsgrave hospital Coventry: Stop the parking charges rip-off

Fast news


Where is the BA cabin crew dispute going?

Smash the bosses' construction blacklist!

Leeds lecturers win concessions - but cuts remain to be fought

Workplace news: In brief


Unison general secretary election: Nominate Roger Bannister

Legal ruling exposes hypocrisy of Unison leadership


FBU general secretary speaks to The Socialist


Women will be at the fore in the fightback!


Global media monster News International condemned

The hounding of Tommy Sheridan

Savage cuts planned at the Beeb


Supporters should own Pompey, not developers


The worldwide thievery of big business

 
 

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The Socialist 3 March 2010, issue Fighting for jobs, services and conditions

Cuts - cartoon by Suz

Cuts - cartoon by Suz

Fighting for jobs, services and conditions

Civil servants on strike on 8 and 9 March: The government is going ahead with its plans to rip up the civil service compensation scheme (redundancy protection pay for civil servants), writes Nick Parker, A PCS member.

spotPCS: All Out to Defend Jobs and Services

spotStop council cuts

spotInvest in jobs, education & Training

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

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

We don't want to see a 'lost generation': "We should try to work with the masters of globalisation"..."Companies like McDonalds... provide a fantastic service that people value at a price that people can afford." Students and education workers...

spotCut the working hours, not the jobs!

spotPortsmouth students and workers unite to fight cuts

spotBrighton students say: Save our nursery

spotEMA inadequacy impacts badly on students

spotBuilding action across Europe

Editorial: Attempts by the bosses and governments across Europe to make workers pay for the economic crisis are being met by a wave of anger and protest...

spotGreece - millions take part in general strike

spotSpain: Thousands join mass demonstrations

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotThe fairytale world of RBS

Comment: IMAGINE WORKERS raiding their firm's safe every week to bet on horses. They stick the money, plus any winnings, back in the safe but keep a large cut for themselves. Now, imagine the workers betting most...

spotNationalise the energy giants

spotActivists launch socialist challenge

spotWalsgrave hospital Coventry: Stop the parking charges rip-off

spotFast news

spotWhere is the BA cabin crew dispute going?

For the third time in four months hundreds of British Airways cabin crew assembled for a joint branch meeting on 25 February at Kempton Park race course, writes Neil Cafferky.

spotSmash the bosses' construction blacklist!

spotLeeds lecturers win concessions - but cuts remain to be fought

spotWorkplace news: In brief

spotUnison general secretary election: Nominate Roger Bannister

Roger Bannister, photo Paul Mattsson

Roger Bannister, photo Paul Mattsson

The outcome of a BBC survey shows that at least 25,000 council jobs are at risk. A spokesperson from the London School of Economics has declared that: "Nothing like this has happened for a generation"...

spotLegal ruling exposes hypocrisy of Unison leadership

spotFBU general secretary speaks to The Socialist

Matt Wrack, FBU General secretary, speaks at Socialism 2005, photo Paul Mattsson

Matt Wrack, FBU General secretary, speaks at Socialism 2005, photo Paul Mattsson

Preparing for more battles over jobs and services: Greg Maughan interviews Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary - another public sector union facing cuts to jobs and services in the coming months, writes How has the FBU changed since you were elected in 2005?.

spotWomen will be at the fore in the fightback!

Unison Local Government strike 16-17 July in London, photo Paul Mattsson

Unison Local Government strike 16-17 July in London, photo Paul Mattsson

100th anniversary of International Women's Day: At the turn of the century some feminists celebrated a 'genderquake', the idea that women had finally achieved equality, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Sussex Socialist Students.

Media

spotGlobal media monster News International condemned

Tommy Sheridan - hounded by News International, photo IS

Tommy Sheridan - hounded by News International, photo IS

RUPERT MURDOCH'S News International Ltd (a UK subsidiary of News Corporation) has been lacerated by a report from a House of Commons select committee into the News of the World's (NoW) phone hacking activities, writes Philip Stott, International Socialists, (CWI in Scotland) Dundee.

spotThe hounding of Tommy Sheridan

spotSavage cuts planned at the Beeb

spotSupporters should own Pompey, not developers

THE COMPANY controlling Portsmouth Football Club (FC) has now gone into administration. This means that control over the club's finances has been taken out of the hands of the owner, writes David Maples.

Socialist Party feature

spotThe worldwide thievery of big business

FEW THINGS better display the underlying morality of capitalism than the scale and scope of 'offshore banking', 'off-balance-sheet' accounting and parasitical speculation - thievery by most people's definition, writes Steve Appleton.