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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 8 July 2010, issue Mass action can stop cuts Staff and students unite in protest at Sussex university, photo Socialist Students Mass action can stop cuts
No apology. No concern. No regret. Sitting comfortably and calmly in his Newsnight chair Michael Gove, education minister, had no qualms about claiming that cuts to frontline services are "unavoidable". Gove merely blamed the previous government. Now young people leaving university cannot get a decent job...
 Build united action to stop the cuts
Government departments to prepare for cuts of 40%... civil servants' redundancy terms to be ripped up...housing benefit to be cut... plans to build new schools and hospitals to be scrapped...
What the Socialist Party says
Con-Dem budget cuts: Hitting those on benefits hardest Hitting those on benefits hardest: "Yes it is tough; but it is also fair". This was how Tory chancellor George Osborne described his emergency budget on 22 June 2010. In fact the plans of this government of millionaires represent an enormous...
How will George Osborne's budget affect families?
Housing benefit cuts - increasing homelessness
Cuts to disability benefits will increase misery
Fight the savage cuts by Neath/Port Talbot council Swansea Unison workers protest against cuts and privatisation in Wales, photo Swansea Socialist Party LABOUR CONTROLLED Neath/Port Talbot council is threatening to sack its 7,000 strong workforce and re-employ them on worse terms and conditions in a brutal attempt to close a £24 million gap in its budget by 2014, writes Alec Thraves.
Hull: Rallying against the austerity budget
'Godfather' turning in his grave
NUS anti-cuts conference Action needed: On 29 June, the National Union of Students (NUS) held a hastily organised conference to discuss the massive cuts looming in higher education...
Youth Fight for Jobs Protest!
BNP forced to abandon its 'festival of hate' Protest against the BNP's 'festival of hate', photo Jim Reaves THE RACIST British National Party (BNP) has been forced to call off its annual Red, White and Blue 'festival of hate' which usually takes place in Codnor, Derbyshire, writes Pete Watson,.
South Africa: 5,000 sacked miners on strike Socialist Party councillor (Australia) speaks to strikers: ON SATURDAY 26 June I travelled with two comrades from South Africa's Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, the Socialist Party's counterpart in South Africa) to a mass meeting they had called in Rustenburg, about two hours north west of Johannesburg, writes Steve Jolly,.
Kazakhstan: The fight goes on
News in brief
Organise against academies now! Defend state education: For their promoters, one of the selling points of the divisive and part-privatised academy schools programme is 'raised educational standards' writes Rob Spurr and Dave Carr.
Limited new 'final' offer facing BA cabin crew British Airways cabin crew on strike at Heathrow airport, photo Paul Mattsson Although there are some guarantees on terms and conditions that were not in the last offer, the substantive issues that led to the strike have not been addressed, writes British Airways cabin crew began voting on 6 July on a new 'final' offer from the company. Despite the rhetoric of BA management the new offer seems to be similar to the old offer put forward prior to the last round of strikes..
PCS will fight new attack on redundancy pay PCS members striking against Labour's cuts, photo Paul Mattsson On 6 July Tory minister Francis Maude announced new legislation to attack civil service workers' redundancy pay, writes John McInally.
Unison by-election: fighting leadership needed Unison conference 2009, photo Paul Mattsson The public sector union Unison has announced the timetable for national executive (NEC) by-elections, including the local government male seat that was held by Socialist Party member Glenn Kelly...
Shrewsbury Pickets march for justice
Lindsey refinery fire death: inquiry needed
Workplace news in brief
Unite general secretary election: support Len McCluskey: The general secretary election in Unite will take place between 25 October and 19 November this year...
Interview: Ken Clarke's prison plans Genuine reform or further hypocrisy?: On 30 June Ken Clarke, the new justice secretary, made a speech addressing the problems of a soaring prison population...
Pride, prejudice, fightback and hypocrisy PRIDE STARTED 40 years ago as a political demonstration for gay rights. London Pride 2010 on 3 July was a carnival, with politics only at the fringes. The gay establishment claim that lesbian, gay, bisexual...
A warm welcome at Summer Camp I WENT to my first Socialist Party summer camp last year as a fairly new member. It was fantastic being in such a relaxed environment with everybody on the same political wavelength and with the same goals in mind, writes Katie Simpson, Cardiff East Socialist Party
Socialism 2010 Saturday 6 - Sunday 7 November
When the financial wizardry lost its magic Steve Appleton reviews: Whoops! Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, by John Lanchester, published by Allen Lane, 2010, writes £20.
Mali's master of the ngoni
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