In this week's issue:

The Socialist 21 July 2010, issue Warning: NHS under attack

Warning: NHS under attack

Death and privatisation in the NHS, photo Paul Mattsson

THIS CABINET of millionaires plans to sound the death knell for the NHS. Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley said his proposals would bring 'power to the people' with control of most NHS spending in...

Youth and students: organise to fight for a future

Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party

Proposed cuts to university budgets over the next two years amount to £1 billion. £340 million is being removed from college budgets. The UCU lecturers' union believes this will mean 34,000 job losses...

Class struggles on the rise

Last week, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) held its annual Summer School, in Belgium. Report by Kevin Parslow from CWI Summer School, Belgium on the CWI website (link opens in another window)

Stand united, fight the cuts!

As Cameron and Clegg's government moves to dismantle public services, they could unleash a whirlwind of opposition as local public services anti-cuts alliances are formed and move into action, writes Brian Debus joint chair, Hackney alliance.

Lessons of the cuts

Education workers must teach Tories a lesson

Fast news

Union recommends BT pay deal

BT and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have agreed a three year pay deal which will be recommended to the union's members in a ballot, writes Clive Walder, Birmingham, Black Country and Worcester branch CWU, personal capacity.

Stop the courts closures

Wales: No to fire service cuts

Strike action wins at Tube Lines

Swansea Linamar

Cuts blogger!

PCS: a strategy to stop the cuts

PCS members striking against Labour's cuts, photo Paul Mattsson

The PCS civil servants union's national executive committee (NEC) has met to discuss how to respond to the Tory/Liberal coalition government's cuts and privatisation programme, writes John McInally national vice-president Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), personal capacity.

TUC refuses national demo

Unite the struggle to defend pensions

Con-Dems propose denationalisation of the NHS

Marching to defend the NHS

Using the cover of 'saving' money by reducing 'bureaucracy', the Con-Dem government is effectively proposing the wholesale privatisation of the National Health Service...

The Socialist Party needs you!

And you need the Socialist Party! If you agree with what you read in The Socialist please don't leave it at that, take the next step and join the Socialist Party, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary.

More join the Socialist Party in Yorkshire

Funding the socialist fightback

Building new workers' parties and the tasks of socialists

For many sections of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), the call for the building of new mass workers' parties has been a vital part of their political programme for almost 20 years, writes I.

Egypt: Thousands protest over brutal police killing

Harder work, longer hours... All part and parcel?

"ENOUGH IS enough" by Donna Summer and Barbara Striesand may not be the greatest song ever but the title illustrates the mindset of many a modern day worker, writes Martyn Yates.

A testing 'pudding' for councillors

Keep probation services public