Prepare for battle

In the last days of the general election campaign the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) tried to provoke the ‘big three’ parties into breaking their silence and coming clean on the ‘savage cuts’ of £55 billion on average that they all intend to make, writes Fight the devastation of jobs and services.

Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster: Stop the polluters!

AN ENVIRONMENTAL catastrophe threatens the US coastline surrounding the Gulf of Mexico following an explosion and sinking of the BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig on 20 April…

Angry Jarvis workers protest

In brief

Finance a socialist future!

Patronising and arrogant: Lib Dems and Tories show true colours

Workers celebrate May Day: Marching together against the bosses’ attacks

IN MANY countries around the world, socialists and trade unionists marched to celebrate international workers’ day on 1 May…

EDL racists challenged in Aylesbury

ON 1 May the racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL) organised a national demonstration in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, writes Socialist Party reporters.

Bring the killers of Blair Peach to face justice

Socialist activist starts hunger strike

Eurozone hit by debt crises

Turmoil reveals limits of European integration: The countries that adopted the euro are facing the most precarious situation for their currency union since they started using the euro in 2002…

Higher education students and staff: Get ready to fight after the election

In the so-called education debate during the election campaign the only thing that was clear is that none of the three main parties stands for university education as a right for all…

Huddersfield University: Everything for sale

Not content with taking thousands of pounds a year off us already, Huddersfield University is charging £15 a ticket to attend its graduation ceremony and £10 to watch the ceremony via a video link, writes Sam Bell, Huddersfield Socialist Students.

Tower Hamlets mayoral referendum

Comment: Would having an ‘executive Mayor’ be more democratic than the way Tower Hamlets council is run at the moment…