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The Socialist issue 618

31 March 2010

We Will Not Pay

2010 Back issues


spotWe will not pay!

Mad Axe Woman Margaret Thatcher. Cartoon by Alan Hardman

Mad Axe Woman Margaret Thatcher. Cartoon by Alan Hardman


spotHelp fund Socialist Party campaigns

We have reached 71% of our quarterly fighting fund target with only eight days to go! The deadline is 9 April – we can still hit the target, but we need to pull out all the stops for the last week…

spotStop the cuts, build a socialist alternative

Editorial: Last week the Financial Times angrily dismissed the “absurd belief” of the 75% of the population who do not support cuts in public services…

PCS strike action

spotPCS: Striking against government attacks

Following the tremendous civil service two-day strike on 8 and 9 March, PCS members once again demonstrated their anger at the government’s attempt to rip up their contracts under the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, writes John McInally, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) national vice-president, personal capacity.

PCS workers on strike and protesting outside the Welsh Assembly, photo Cardiff Socialist Party

PCS workers on strike and protesting outside the Welsh Assembly, photo Cardiff Socialist Party


spotPCS budget day strike: Support grows across country

Transport strikes

spotBA cabin crew strike: ‘We shall not be moved’

AS THE second round of strikes by British Airways (BA) cabin crew comes to a conclusion no-one within a ten mile radius of Heathrow could possibly be unaware of what is happening, writes Neil Cafferky.

British Airways cabin crew on the picket line, photo Paul Mattsson

British Airways cabin crew on the picket line, photo Paul Mattsson


spotFight the decimation of London tube jobs

spotNetwork Rail dispute: RMT signalworker speaks to The Socialist

spotWorkplace news in brief

NUT conference

spotNUT conference: fight cuts and excessive workload

The annual conference of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) usually hits the headlines over the Easter weekend, writes Martin Powell-Davies, secretary Lewisham NUT.

spotSocialist elected to NUT executive

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

spotTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Standing against cuts and privatisation

TUSC launch rally in London: The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has been set up to stand candidates in the coming general and local elections – expected on 6 May – who are against the pro-big business agenda of the main political parties…

TUSC Launch rally, London March 2010, photo Alison Hill

TUSC Launch rally, London March 2010, photo Alison Hill


Socialist Party news and analysis

spotYorkshire on the campaign trail

Jackie Grunsell, TUSC candidate, GP and councillor, speaks at a Save Huddersfield NHS demonstration, photo Huddersfield SP

Jackie Grunsell, TUSC candidate, GP and councillor, speaks at a Save Huddersfield NHS demonstration, photo Huddersfield SP


spotDeveloping a strategy to defeat the far-right

spotWaltham Forest: on march against redundancies

spotCameron shows Tories still anti-gay

spotCouncil cuts: Grim Reaper moving to Surrey

spotLewisham councillors’ record

spotNews in brief

Outdoing Thatcher: FOR THOSE who continue to believe that Labour is the “lesser evil” to vote for in May’s general election then Alistair Darling’s post-budget comment should have them holding their heads in their hands in disbelief…

International socialist news and analysis

spotTerror returns to Moscow For workers’ unity against terror, repression, racism and capitalism

THIRTY NINE people died and over 70 were badly injured when two bombs exploded on the Moscow metro during the morning rush hour on Monday 29 March, writes Igor Yasin and Rob Jones, CWI Russia.

spotEurozone crisis: Hanging together or hanging separately

THE WORST capitalist crisis since the 1930s has led to increasing crises, turbulence and change in the world, writes Danny Byrne.

Youth

spotFuture Jobs scam: attacks on young unemployed

The Future Jobs Scheme is the government’s new initiative aimed at getting young people back into work. But it appears to be more about driving the young unemployed off benefits, writes Vincent Leonard.

spotSouthampton University protest

spotMay Day march in Hull: Rebuilding traditions of struggle

Socialist Party review

spotWhen We Were Miners

When We Were Miners marks the 25th anniversary of the ending of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the greatest movement of workers in Britain since the 1926 general strike…

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