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The Socialist 31 March 2010, issue We Will Not Pay

Mad Axe Woman Margaret Thatcher. Cartoon by Alan Hardman

We will not pay!

'Worse than Thatcher' So similar are the policies of the three main political parties that you couldn't get an anorexic fag paper between them, writes Nancy Taaffe, TUSC election candidate, Walthamstow, east London.

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PCS: Striking against government attacks

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

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 budget day strike: Support grows across country

BA cabin crew strike: 'We shall not be moved'

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

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.

Fight the decimation of London tube jobs

Network Rail dispute: RMT signalworker speaks to The Socialist

Workplace news in brief

NUT 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.

Socialist elected to NUT executive

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Standing against cuts and privatisation

TUSC Launch rally, London March 2010, photo Alison Hill

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...

Yorkshire on the campaign trail

Developing a strategy to defeat the far-right

Waltham Forest: on march against redundancies

Cameron shows Tories still anti-gay

Council cuts: Grim Reaper moving to Surrey

Lewisham councillors' record

News in brief

Terror 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.

Eurozone crisis: Hanging together or hanging separately

Future 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.

Southampton University protest

May Day march in Hull: Rebuilding traditions of struggle

When 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...