In this week's issue:

The Socialist 20 October 2010, issue Fight all cuts in jobs and services

Unite members on strike to save a Coventry youth centre, photo Clive Dunkley

Fight all cuts in jobs and services

TUC must organise action:
* Mass national demo
* 24-hour public sector general strike
As the first steps in the building of a mass campaign
We won't pay for the bosses' crisis!

Build coordinated action to stop cuts

Workers under attack

NHS: Not safe in Con-Dem hands

Marching to defend the NHS

THE FUNDING crisis facing the NHS is even now becoming apparent. The Guardian reported on 13 October that the South West Essex primary care trust (PCT) has overspent by £52 million, writes Leigh Cartwright.

Coventry jobs slaughter - unions must fight back

Government slams door shut on social housing

Osborne mugs poor to pay for rich

Cambridge Uni to go private?

Mass action needed to defeat fees and cuts

Over 100 students and workers at Warwick university came to an emergency protest on the steps of the university piazza, photo Warwick Socialist Students

Browne Review: threat of a two-tier education system: Lord Browne has recommended that universities be free to charge unlimited tuition fees from 2012. This is a door slammed firmly in the face of those looking to education...

Warwick university - students condemn escalation of fees

Leeds university - protest following Browne review

Huge demo against passport office closure in Newport

Newport Demo to save the Passport Office: John McInally, Vice president, Public and Commercial Services union, with the IPS group banner , photo Socialist Party Wales

Newport fights the cuts: Everyone in Newport has been incensed by the decision to close the Passport Office here. In just a few days the whole community mobilised and a good 1,000 people came on the noisy demonstration around...

RMT executive election: Support Lewis Peacock

Fighting the anti-union laws

Police try to stifle Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition protest

Strike forces concessions at Tyneside Safety Glass

Workplace news in brief

Protest, strike, fightback! French workers and youth challenge cuts

French workers demonstrate in Brussels for the European day of action, 29 September 2010, photo by Paul Mattsson

The mobilisation of the French working class has now reached a crucial stage. Strikes and mass demonstrations on 19 October, according to the CGT trade union confederation, again brought a staggering 3.5...

World economy heading for 'double-dip' recession

Socialism 2010: ideas to fight the cuts

Socialism 2010 Programme

If you're opposed to the Con-Dem cabinet of millionaires making working class people pay for the bankers' bailouts then you should attend Socialism 2010, writes Sean Figg.

Days of Hope by Jim Allen, reviewed by Leigh Cartwright

Reviews: AT A car boot sale I bought (for 20p!) a book called Days of Hope by Jim Allen. The book, which can be found second-hand on the internet, was the fictional story (but historically accurate) of a group...

Enter Shikari - Common Dreads (album 2009)

Liverpool FC: "They don't care about fans!"

Readers' comment: "THEY ONLY care about money, they don't care about fans, Liverpool Football Club is in the wrong hands!" sang Liverpool FC fans gathered outside London's Royal Courts of Justice...