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The Socialist issue 636

1 September 2010

A fightback can stop cuts

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The Socialist issue 636

spotA fightback can stop cuts

London May Day demonstration, photo Jules Mattsson

London May Day demonstration, photo Jules Mattsson


Youth fight for jobs

spotOur future under attack

It seems that £30,000 a year can almost guarantee you top grades in your A-levels. This year, students from private schools were more than twice as likely to get the new A* grades as those from comprehensives…

Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Sarah Mayo

Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Sarah Mayo


Anti-cuts campaign

spotAnti-cuts movement builds momentum in Plymouth

THE POET Shelley helped inspire a 50-strong meeting launching Plymouth’s fight against the cuts. 90-year-old pensioners’ campaigner, Paddy Ryan, quoted Shelley: “Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable…

spotNorth Staffs TUC public meeting against cuts

EVEN IN the holiday period, around 100 community campaigners and trade union activists attended a North Staffs TUC (NSTUC) public meeting on 18 August to launch an anti-cuts alliance and start a serious fightback against the Con-Dems’ savage cuts…

spotCuts hit poor hardest

Anti-racism

spotFighting the far right in Bradford

ON SATURDAY 28 August, the racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL) could only muster 700 supporters to their Bradford demonstration for what was meant to be their ‘Big One’…

Chanting against the far right EDL in Bradford, photo Paul Mattsson

Chanting against the far right EDL in Bradford, photo Paul Mattsson


Socialist Party news and analysis

spotLabour’s three stooges aid Con-Dem coalition

THREE FORMER Labour cabinet members are now acting as advisers to the Con-Dem coalition. Prime Minister Cameron has appointed Alan Milburn his ‘social mobility tsar’, who is supposed to help break down…

spotGovernment cuts hit our benefits

spotKeep Middle Street centre open

spotDefend school meals

Socialist Party feature

spotSlashing public services: do councillors have ‘no choice’?

Campaigns against the Tory/Liberal government’s cuts have wide support. But many councillors say that they are, in principle, opposed to cutting public services but have “no choice” but to implement cuts…

Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair

Liverpool city council’s struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair


spotLobby the TUC conference

Lobby the TUC conference

Sunday 12 September 12 noon

Central Convention Centre, Manchester

Organised by the National Shop Stewards Network

Contact the NSSN for more information and to report what is happening in your area in support of the lobby: [email protected]

International socialist news

spotKazakhstan: Human rights activist beaten and arrested

HUMAN RIGHTS campaigner and lawyer Vadim Kuramshina was violently attacked and arrested last week in Kokchetava, northern Kazakhstan…

spotWorldwide protests against brutal attack on three Russian socialists

spotPakistan flood disaster: Workers’ solidarity appeal

International feature

spotGeneral strike movement sweeps South Africa

THE COSATU trade union federation in South Africa has warned the African National Congress (ANC) government to meet 1.3 million public sector workers’ demands for an 8.6% pay increase and a housing allowance of R1,000 a month, writes Weizmann Hamilton of the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa.

Socialist Party workplace news

spotBattles ahead on London Underground

On 24 August, reps from transport unions TSSA and RMT met to discuss the first ever joint strike between the two unions on London Underground, writes Reg Johnstone, RMT.

spotLondon firefighters ballot for action

spotJobs threat at RBS

spotCoventry mail centre closes

spotCivil service jobs under the cosh

Last week the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced the lost of almost 400 jobs from the Pension Service and Jobcentres. A PCS Member in the North East writes.

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