In this week's issue:

The Socialist 27 October 2010, issue Stop cuts through mass action

Stop cuts through mass action

Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Suzanne Beishon

On Wednesday 20 October gasps of anguish and shock could be heard as workers and young people realised just how cruel the Con-Dem cuts would be...

Thousands march against cuts

20,000 march in Edinburgh against cuts

Wales says: don't break the poor

Northern Ireland: build a new party

Police attack Bristol demonstration

Wave of protests against Con-Dem cuts

Join the protests

Organise to stop education cuts!

Sheffield Socialist Students protesting outside deputy prime minister Nick Clegg's constituency office on 20 October 2010, photo Sheffield Socialist Students

Urgent action needed as EMA scrapped: The government definitely Con-Dem-ed young people with the cuts package in the Comprehensive Spending Review!, writes Jethro Waldron, College student, Nottingham.

Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students day of action

Youth Fight for Jobs conference - 4 December

Step forward for TUC youth unemployment demo

Socialism 2010: Weekend of discussion and debate 6-7 November

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

Socialism 2010 is the weekend to debate how we can fight back aginst cuts, war and environmental destruction, and debate how a socialist alternative can be built...

Mass action urgent against programme for poverty

Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Paul Mattsson

So brutal, so vicious are the £81 billion cuts announced by George Osborne on 'Axe Wednesday' that nothing short of action of mass dimensions by the organised might of the labour movement is acceptable, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.

Housing cuts will mean more evictions and social cleansing

A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill

CHANCELLOR George Osborne's spending review represents a nightmare for working class people. His announcement that housing benefit would be restricted to paying for a room rather than a flat for people...

Axeman Osborne slashes disabled people's benefits

Government bludgeons workers' pensions

How the rich beat the taxman

On your bus, IDS!

Bolton: Police brutality exposed

Franchising torture

Victory to London firefighters!

100 striking FBU firefighters led the London October 23rd trade union led demonstration against the cuts, photo Paul Mattsson

London firefighters were on strike for eight hours on 23 October, against changes in shift patterns which will pave the way for cuts, writes Paula Mitchell.

BA bosses try to control union

Disaster for local government

Unite general secretary election: Right wing candidate on another planet