In this week's issue:

The Socialist 17 November 2010, issue Fight for your future!

Fight for your future!

NUS student and UCU demonstration against tuition fees and education cuts, photo Sarah Wrack

On 10 November the anger at the Con-Dem government's attacks spilled out onto the streets as 52,000 students and university workers marched through London, writes Jack Poole, Brighton Socialist Students.

Massive student demo shows anti-cuts anger

24 November - Strike against fees and cuts

Defend student protesters!

10 November demonstration: Students fighting back

Afghanistan: Withdraw the troops now!

Demonstrating against war in Afghanistan, photo A Hill

The Nato onslaught on Afghanistan is now in its tenth year. Ten years of horrific brutality inflicted on those who have fought against the invasion and on many thousands of civilians in the areas under...

Kirklees - fighting £400 million budget cut

Kirklees Save Our services trade union protest against cuts , photo Huddersfield Socialist Party

After months of delays and deliberation by the leadership of Unison both locally and regionally, Kirklees Unison has voted to ballot for strike action against cuts and redundancies, a Unison member writes.

Protests and meetings against the cuts

Victory in law centre battle

Jobs threat in Knowsley

Ballot cancelled in BA dispute

National Shop Stewards Network: Anti-cuts conference

Workplace news in brief

Universal Credit - a thinly veiled attack on the sick and unemployed

The government launched its white paper proposals for universal credit to replace most of the current benefit system with a barrage of publicity that sought to demonise the unemployed. Jane Aitchison, PCS union president of the Department for Work and Pensions (personal capacity) investigates.

Coalition turns back the clock on justice

Tories promote fast food nation

Fast news

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its campaign for the 2011 local elections

Socialist-led Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 led to mass demonstrations and thousands of new council houses built, photo Dave Sinclair

We need councillors who will fight the cuts! "These cuts will hurt", warned the Tory chair of the Local Government Association, Lady Eaton. "Up to 100,000 jobs in local authorities will go. That's one in ten of the workforce", writes Clive Heemskerk.

Ireland: 'Not simply a crisis but an absolute disaster'

THE ECONOMY in the Irish Republic is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and the government may be forced to go, cap in hand, to the European Union to obtain a bailout...

Ireland: United Left Alliance to challenge at next general election

Support the Laura Ashley strikers

Britain's trillion pound horror story

TV review: EVER SINCE the worldwide economic recession started in 2008, Britain's bankers and big business have been trying to avoid responsibility for the crisis...