In this week's issue:

The Socialist 14 October 2010, issue Strike back at pensions robbery

Strike back at pensions robbery

Unite workers protest, photo by Paul Mattsson

Former Labour minister Lord Hutton, on a comfortable MP's pension, has released an interim report on his investigation into public sector pensions...

Protest against the Con-Dem's comprehensive cuts on 23 October

TUC must name the date for strike action

PCS fights to defend jobs and pensions

When they say fees will rise... we fight back and organise!

Student tuition fees: what Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students say

No to academy schools!

School students strike in Dover

Action against EMA cuts in Huddersfield and Mansfeild

Con-Dem attacks will lead to social cleansing

Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi

THE CON-Dem government and their anti-working class press would have us believe that the country is full of lazy, oversized families living the high life off benefits worth tens of thousands of pounds a year, writes North London health worker.

Labour shadows show: We need a new workers' party!

WHAT DO the results of the election to Labour's Shadow Cabinet tell us about the direction, or even likelihood, of Ed Miliband's party leading a fightback against the coalition cuts?, writes Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist, Chair, Campaign for a New Workers' Party.

Children - a privilege for the rich?

Save Wanstead Flats

Community organises to resist EDL thugs

English Defence League supporter (centre bottom). The EDL met a massive counter-demonstration in Leicester, photo Paul Mattsson

HUNDREDS, EVEN thousands, of local people turned out to defend their community in Leicester when the hooligan English Defence League (EDL) came to stir up racism, writes Steve Score.

The battle is on over DWP pay

PCS DWP civil servants in Leicester during recent strike action, photo Leicester Socialist Party

Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been given management's pay offer for this year's pay increase, writes Katrine Williams, PCS DWP vice president, personal capacity.

Fight Passport Office closure

Greenwich council threatens mass sackings

Workplace news in brief

Come to Socialism 2010

The Socialism event on 6-7 November is a must for every trade unionist, socialist and campaigner. It is a brilliant opportunity to discuss socialist ideas in a great atmosphere. There are sessions to interest...

The general strike: Important tool of the working class

100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, photo Paul Mattsson

All across Europe workers and young people face the austerity axe. And all across Europe there is a fight to defend jobs and services against governments who are determined to do the bidding of big business...

Will prices rocket up?

Stalinism and capitalism - a toxic brew in Hungary

NEARLY 700 million litres of toxic red sludge poured from a ruptured industrial reservoir flooding three villages and polluting rivers in Hungary...