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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 24 March 2010, issue Strikers can beat BA bosses  Strikers can beat BA bosses
British Airways cabin crew strikers on the picket line , photo Paul Mattsson Support grows for cabin crew: "We've been forced into going on strike because the terms and conditions have changed on board the aircraft, writes Neil Cafferky.
BA cabin crew can win
Message of support for striking BA workers from Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins:
Striking British Airways cabin crew pickets speak to The Socialist
Support trade union and socialist alternative: Workers reject main parties PCS demonstration through central London during two day strike, photo Paul Mattsson BA CABIN crew, civil servants, railway workers... As the general election looms, trade unionists are voting for, and taking, action to defend their rights, conditions and pay against the onslaught from...
Trade unionist and Socialist Coalition
Salford: The growth of 'Hazel Must Go!'
Woolwich and Greenwich: For a workers' MP on a worker's wage
Stoke Central: Fighting for the millions not the millionaires
Trade unionist and Socialist Coalition general election launch rally
'MPs for hire' scandal More parliamentary sleaze: "I'M A bit like a cab for hire," said former Blairite government minister Stephen Byers to an undercover reporter who was posing as a company lobbyist, writes Dave Carr.
Hewitt's big business alliance
New workers' party needed
MPs: in it for the money
Far-right EDL outnumbered in Bolton, police try to even the odds! When the far-right English Defence League (EDL) brought their racist bandwagon to Bolton in Greater Manchester on Saturday 20 March they were significantly outnumbered by anti-EDL protesters, writes Socialist Party members, Greater Manchester.
EDL attend anti-racist meeting
Nottingham anti-EDL anti-BNP conference
Sussex: Students gain a victory - but fight must go on! A week of protests and activity at Sussex University started with a 700-strong protest of staff and students on Thursday 11 March and culminated in a one-day strike by lecturers and the reinstatement of six suspended students on Thursday 18 March, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Sussex Socialist Students.
Cuts to higher education announced: Students fight back
Socialist Party youth meeting
On the march against cuts
March 1990 anti-poll tax demonstration Anti-Poll Tax demonstration March 1990 The riot - what really happened: In 1989, one million Scots were not paying the poll tax. The All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was also planning organised opposition south of the border. On 1 April 1990, 35 million people would get...
Massive rejection of Sarkozy's policies presages a 'third round on the streets' Workers and youth protest in Paris, France in May 2003, photo Paul Mattsson France: Regional elections: LITTLE MORE than 24 hours after the second round of regional elections in France, strike action began on the railways, ushering in a day of action and protests in 80 cities across the country, writes Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
Obama's neutered health bill limps through
Socialist Party news and analysis
Nottingham council targets the vulnerable COMMUNITY GROUPS across Nottingham have been expressing their anger at the impact of council budget cuts on services, particularly those for vulnerable adults, writes Jean Thorpe, Nottingham East Socialist Party.
Dickens is back: Implications of poverty revealed in London
Barking council: Late developers
Battling against school academies in Hastings
HP workers take further action Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members working for Hewlett Packard (HP) have announced a further four days of strike action in support of demands over pay, job security and collective bargaining rights, writes Ian Fitzpatrick.
Rail safety disputes
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