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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 12 May 2010, issue MPs and party leaders haggle over their jobs... preparing to cut ours! Jobs not dole, photo Paul Mattsson MPs and party leaders haggling over their jobs... preparing to cut ours!
In the general election, none of the three main parties managed to get the votes of even a quarter of the total number of people registered to vote, writes Judy Beishon.
 Support the British Airways strikers
British Airways cabin crew are set to take 20 days of strike action starting on 18 May. The strikes will be in four blocks of five days with one day 'breathers' in between. In an online poll 81% of union...
Greece: the struggle must continue and intensify The dramatic events of Greece in the days before the election, with workers in an immense general strike besieging the Greek parliament, must also have exercised a powerful effect on the outlook of many British workers., photo BBC video screen shot ON THURSDAY 5 May, workers across Greece took part in a huge general strike in angry opposition to a new austerity cuts package. Press statement issued by Xekinima (the Socialist Party's counterpart in Greece)...
Fight the repression of workers in Kazakhstan
General election 2010: TUSC results and the need for working class representation BESIDE THE events in Greece the general election in Britain seems a mundane affair. Nonetheless, it opens up a period of instability which will, at a certain stage, lead to 'Greece coming to Britain'...
Coventry elections: Strong socialist support
Lewisham elections: socialists will be at forefront of struggle
Huddersfield elections: Forging a socialist campaigning tradition
Anti-Tory mood dominated in Stoke during 2010 election
Spelthorne campaign during the 2010 general election
Swansea: Potential new members
Scotland: Meetings show enthusiasm for socialism
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition (TUSC) general election results
Election deadlock This article by Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party was written on the day after the general election...
Obituary - Peter Hadden, 1950 - 2010 LIFELONG SOCIALIST activist Peter Hadden, the Northern secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI) in Ireland, died on 5 May...
Gulf of Mexico disaster: nationalise the oil giants Gulf of Mexico oil spill spirals towards New Orleans, photo NASA Earth Observatory image AFTER THE explosion which sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, causing eleven deaths and threatening an environmental catastrophe, many people must be wondering what is to be done with the oil companies - not least the relatives of the workers killed in the explosion, writes Pete Mason.
Defend the public sector The general election has produced a hung parliament. One thing is clear, whoever forms the government has no mandate to carry out the savage spending cuts planned by all the establishment political parties, writes John McInally, national vice-president Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), personal capacity
PCS courts victory
Vote Roger Bannister
Ex-Jarvis workers protest in Leeds
Gateshead housing protest
Lecturers' union strike demo
National Shop Stewards Network conference
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