In this week's issue:

The Socialist 23 November 2010, issue Youth Fight for Education: No cuts, no fees, save EMA!

Youth Fight for Education: No cuts, no fees, save EMA!

Students on the march

This hated Con-Dem government is facing the first mass national action against its brutal cuts. There has been a huge wave of students and young people protesting against the slashing of teaching budgets...

No to victimisation, defend student protesters!

Defend university access for all!

Universities occupied over fees and cuts

Not one job or one service to be cut

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi

Every time you switch on the TV there is yet more gloomy news about cuts - mostly handed out by millionaires; big business bosses laying off workers to maximise their profit, or their pals in parliament who do their bidding, writes Linda Taaffe, National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) secretary.

Mass organised action can stop cuts

1,000 march in Gloucester against 'scorched earth policy'

Fighting cuts: A militant stance is what's needed

Profiting from the most vulnerable

Government plans are an attack on council tenants

Fast news

Firefighters on the march

Matt Wrack with firefighters at their rally and lobby MPs against cuts, photo Suzanne Beishon

On 17 November FBU members from Gloucestershire joined the 2,000 firefighters who poured out of their rally at Westminster and blocked the road outside Parliament, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire Socialist Party.

McCluskey elected Unite general secretary

Ireland in crisis

Terry Kelleher, CPSU Executive, Ireland, condemns the cuts at the National Shop Stewards Network conference 2010, photo Socialist Party

The Irish government, the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are preparing to turn Ireland into a wasteland, writes Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party Ireland.

Scotland and Wales: Don't accept the 'hand you have been dealt'

THE CON-DEM government does not only aim to bring in massive cuts in public spending controlled from Westminster. It also wants to push cuts through in the Scottish parliament and the Welsh Assembly. As with cuts in council services, they hope in this way to divert anger away from the Tory and Lib Dem parties. Dave Reid and Philip Stott call for the Con-Dems' plans to be defeated by a mass fightback similar to that fought by socialists in Liverpool council in the 1980s.

Cholera epidemic sparks clashes between Haitians and UN troops

Massive food price hikes spell disaster for poorest people