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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 5 May 2010, issue Prepare for battle  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 a deafening protest, hundreds of Jarvis workers demanded justice outside the headquarters of Network Rail on 28 April. In total 1,200 Jarvis workers have been thrown out on the coals, writes Hannah Sell.
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...
Socialist Party news and analysis
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
Tower Hamlets mayoral referendum Comment: Would having an 'executive Mayor' be more democratic than the way Tower Hamlets council is run at the moment...
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