In this week's issue:

The Socialist 11 November 2010, issue £9,000 student fees: we won’t pay!

£9,000 student fees: we won't pay!

Youth Fight For Jobs march 2 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson

Build a mass, national, democratic campaign against cuts and fees
* NO to fees rising to up to £9,000 a year and 80% cuts to universities' teaching budgets!
* NO to interest rates on student loans of up to 3% above inflation!
* NO to scrapping EMA and 25% cuts to college budgets!
* NO to young people and workers paying for the bankers' crisis!

No to £9,000 tuition fees: Fight for your future!

Ireland: Largest student protest in a generation

Stop the Con-Dems' slave labour scheme

Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration in Barking, photo Paul Mattsson

Fight for real jobs! On 7 November the Con-Dem government leaked its plans to force the unemployed into unpaid slave labour, writes Paul Callanan, Youth Fight for Jobs.

What the capitalist cuts really mean

National Shop Stewards Network: Anti-cuts conference

Socialism 2010: An inspirational weekend

Socialism 2010 rally, photo Paul Mattsson

"I found Socialism 2010 a really inspiring event. As PCS President for members in the Department for Work and Pensions, every day I am fighting the cuts that threaten our jobs and the much needed benefits...

Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students conference

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

Organise the fightback: This will be a great opportunity to have your say in shaping the future of YFJ which has already held several successful demonstrations and attracted the support of six national trade unions...

Leeds: Stop the closure of Union Books

Goldsmiths students occupy town hall

London firefighters' dispute: the fight is not over

Ian Leahair, Fire Brigades Union (FBU) executive council member for London, on picket line, photo Suzanne Beishon

The London district committee of the firefighters' union, the FBU, voted by 19 to 3 to postpone its strike action planned for 5 and 6 November...

Massive anger must be organised into coordinated trade union action

London tube strike - picket line reports

Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson

The third day of joint strike action on 3 November by RMT and TSSA rail unions on London Underground shut down 107 stations across the network...

BBC staff fight for pensions: picket line reports

Protest at law centre closure

Fight the mail centre cuts

Vendetta continues against Tommy Sheridan, socialist fighter

Tommy Sheridan speaking at Socialism 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

Tommy and Gail Sheridan's perjury trial is now in its sixth week and is certain to be the longest case of its kind in Scottish legal history...

Angry campaigners discuss Stroud fightback

NHS - workers looking for a fighting lead

Fast news

Attacks on disabled people's rights

Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi

A recent Observer exposé of the implications of Con-Dem cuts on one London borough described a nightmare scenario...

Scotland: potential to build a mass movement against cuts

Anti-cuts demonstration in Edinburgh, photo Ray Smith

A very positive meeting of anti-cuts campaigns and trade unionists took place in Glasgow on Saturday 6 November, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.

US elections: Bankruptcy of Democrats leads to spectacular fall

Review: Call Mr Robeson: A Life, with Songs

KATE JONES reviews Call Mr Robeson: A Life, with Songs, a one-man show currently on tour. It is coming to Coventry (Belgrade Theatre) on 27 November and Lincoln (University) on 11 December. For further...