In this week's issue:

The Socialist 9 September 2010, issue We can stop the Con-Dem cuts

Seven Sisters London Underground RMT and TSSA members strike, photo Paul Mattsson

We can stop the Con-Dem cuts

The massive cuts threatened by the Con-Dem coalition can be beaten! The reports below show that determination and militancy can make employers back off from cuts proposals...

Health workers' victory

National Shop Stewards Network lobby of the TUC

We won't be a lost generation!

Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, photo Paul Mattsson

Young people face an uncertain future. The Con-Dem butchers have turned their axe to education in what is set to be the most savage attack on the public sector since the welfare state was established...

No to slave labour apprenticeships!

Tony Blair - a journey to Thatcherism

TONY BLAIR'S memoirs show that he really was Thatcher's heir. He tries to justify New Labour's capitalist economic policies, ferociously attacking Gordon Brown for daring to "depart a millimetre from...

Blair admits he was wrong...

Academies will lead to a two-tier education system

Jobs and services are facing axe in Cornwall

Far right not welcome in Brighton

Just days after 700 protested in Bradford, the far-right English Defence League (EDL) marched through Brighton, writes Jon Redford.

Con-Dems threaten EMA

Solid strike on London Underground

London Underground workers RMT members, on strike , photo Paul Mattsson

The power of organised working class people was demonstrated resoundingly on 7 September. 11,000 London Underground (LU) workers were striking against job cuts, writes Paula Mitchell.

London bus workers fight cuts

London: Unite members to strike against NHS privatisation

Corus Redcar - the real story

New Royal Mail boss sharpens her axe

Fighting for the health service

Death and privatisation in the NHS, photo Paul Mattsson

The new government's health policy was put forward in July 2010 in the white paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, writes David Pelsall.

The callous cutting of NHS Direct

Against cuts? Come to Socialism 2010

Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union RMT, addresses Socialism 2009, photo Rob Emery

The capitalist leaders at the moment are telling us that cuts are inevitable and there's nothing that workers can do about it, writes Rob Williams Unite Convenor, Swansea Linamar, and National Shop Stewards Network steering committee member.

Russia: Motorway construction through Khimkinsky forest halted

ON 7 August, Russian CWI activist, Igor Yasin, and two other CWI members, were brutally attacked by thugs following a peaceful protest in Moscow over the proposed construction of a major new road through Khimkinsky forest, part of Moscow's green belt, writes Igor Yasin, Moscow.

Global food crisis reveals failure of capitalism

No to Trident nuclear weapons

THE OUTGOING Blair/Brown New Labour government won parliamentary support for the modernisation of the Trident system with support from the Tories, writes Ronnie Stevenson, Socialist Party Scotland.

Zola's Germinal: still relevant today

It is 125 years since Emile Zola's Germinal was first published. Dave Gorton delves into one of the most renowned and important works of French literature...