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The Socialist issue 634

4 August 2010

Con-Dem cuts mean: we need ‘biggest movement since poll tax’

2010 Back issues


The Socialist issue 634

spotWe need ‘biggest movement since poll tax’

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

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


Anti-cuts campaign

spot‘Radical’ cuts require serious action

Build national and local action: “Some people will be hit much harder by the VAT rise,” cried the impassioned Tory councillor in Waltham Forest town hall, writes “Think of those who have to buy Bentleys,” she continued!.

spotWaltham Forest’s Labour council faces opposition

spotCoventry campaigners fight cuts of £140 million

spotSwansea trades council leads battle for services

spotCampaigners answer Bristol’s ‘Big Conversation’

spotCuts news: Mental health services facing the axe

spotNSSN pledged to fight cuts

War and occupation

spotTroops out now!

THE LEAKING of 75,000 secret US military documents on the Afghanistan war ‘endangers lives’, screamed the US Pentagon…

Anti-war demonstration October 2009, photo Rob Emery

Anti-war demonstration October 2009, photo Rob Emery


spotAfghanistan: US strategy in disarray

The concerted might of the strongest and largest military force in the world, that of the US, is failing to defeat the disparate and crudely equipped Taliban militias in one of the poorest countries of the world…

Accademies

spotOppose divisive academies policy

BLUNDERING EDUCATION minister, Michael Gove, is finding that the realities of life do not match his free market fantasies, writes Robin Pye.

Workplace news and analysis

spotTalks resume at British Airways

Negotiations between BA management and Unite cabin crew representatives resumed on 2 August and are continuing at the time of writing…

spotAngry workers strike over pay freeze and bosses’ bonuses

spotFighting fire service cuts

spotWitch-hunted Unison activist wins tribunal

Workplace Debate

spotUnite general secretary election

In an article in issue 632 of The Socialist, Kevin Parslow outlined reasons why Socialist Party members in the Unite trade union are supporting Len McCluskey in the general secretary (GS) election…

Tony Woodley, Socialist Party member Rob Williams and Len McCluskey (back) address a Visteon pensions lobby at Unite conference, photo Mike Gard

Tony Woodley, Socialist Party member Rob Williams and Len McCluskey (back) address a Visteon pensions lobby at Unite conference, photo Mike Gard


Youth fight for jobs

spotWe won’t be a lost generation, fight for jobs and education!

The statistics range wildly but one thing is obvious – young people’s plans for the future are being dashed, writes Ben Robinson.

spotNo to privatisation of our universities

spotFor real jobs, not slave labour

Environment and socialism

spotProfiting from wrecking the environment

AN OIL trading company has been fined £840,000 after being convicted for concealing the dangerous nature of toxic waste which was subsequently dumped in the Ivory Coast in 2006, causing thousands of people to fall ill, writes John Sharpe.

spotStop the Cardiff incinerator

spotSave Wanstead Flats

Tamil Solidarity

spotDaily Mail admits guilt over smearing Tamil hunger striker

THE DAILY Mail headline read: “Hunger Striker’s £7 million Big Mac”. This outrageous attack, printed on 9 October 2009, accused Subramanyam Parameswaran of eating a Big Mac while ‘pretending’ to be on…

Socialist Party LGBT

spotCampaigning at Leeds Pride

Leeds Socialist Party members formed a very visible and vocal contingent on the Leeds LGBT Pride march around Leeds city centre on 1 August, handing out leaflets calling for a united fight against homophobia and transphobia as part of the wider struggle for socialism…

Gay Pride demo 2007, photo Marc Vallee

Gay Pride demo 2007, photo Marc Vallee


Socialist Party events

spotBook now for the summer camp!

The Socialist Party Summer Camp 2010, taking place from Friday 27 August to Monday 30 August, is the ideal opportunity for activists to come together to share ideas and experiences while enjoying a weekend of sports, singing and maybe even some sun, writes “I had a great weekend,” said Stuart Thompson, who joined the Socialist Party last year. “The camp happened right after the Vestas campaign and after focusing our energy on the Isle of Wight it was really useful to swap ideas and experiences with comrades from around the country who had been involved in their own campaigns.”.

spotSocialism 2010 – a weekend of discussion and debate

International socialist news and analysis

spotLove Parade catastrophe was entirely preventable

ON 24 July, 21 people died in the horrific stampede at the Love Parade festival in the German city of Duisburg…

spotGarment workers demand a living wage

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotAsda profiting from low pay

A DAMNING report was issued recently by the charity ActionAid on the “deplorable” pay and working conditions of Bangladeshi factory workers employed by British supermarket Asda – a subsidiary of US conglomerate Wal-Mart which makes £45 million a day in profit…

spotTories put profits before patients

ONE PART of Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley’s brutal scheme to privatise the NHS allows NHS foundation trusts to abolish what he called an ‘arbitrary, ill thought out’ cap…

spotRich just carry on getting richer

spotFast news

Review & Comment

spotThe howlers’ world and ours

Review: The Lacuna: THE LACUNA is written as the diary of a solitary young man, Harrison Shepherd, who ends up working as a cook for the Mexican artist Diego Rivera and then the exiled Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the 1917 Russian revolution, writes Hannah Sell.

spotHow the banks rip us off

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