In this week's issue:

The Socialist 1 December 2010, issue Young people lead fight against cuts

Young people lead fight against cuts

Nottingham University students occupy

Join the national education shutdown on 'Day X'
There is now no doubting the opposition to education cuts amongst young people. Over 50,000 marched in London on the 10 November National Union of Students (NUS) demo. But, students were not willing to...

We can win: student struggle must escalate

Unity - but not unity of the graveyard

London anti-cuts demo organised by the RMT, FBU, PCS, NUT, National Shop Stewards Network and other unions, photo Suzanne Beishon

Editorial On 27 November 100,000 workers took to the streets in Ireland in a gigantic show of opposition to the cuts raining down on them...

How can an anti-cuts movement be built? Coalition of Resistance conference report

Defend jobs and services

Birmingham council workers strike, April 2008, included Unison, GMB, NUT and PCS workers, photo S O'Neill

100,000 council workers given redundancy notices: During the first week of December local councils will be told in exact cash terms what the cuts will mean for them over the next four years, writes A local government worker.

Riot police called to Lewisham town hall lobby

Irish working class in huge show of defiance

Fight against cuts continues to grow

Coventry council - stop job cuts

NHS walk-in centre saved, but campaign continues

News in brief

Nuneaton protest against racist EDL

Anti-EDL campaigners in Nuneaton, photo Bob Smith

On Saturday 27 November Socialist Party members and allies in the Nuneaton Anti-Fascist Alliance staged a successful counter-protest of over 150 people as the English Defence League (EDL) marched through Nuneaton, writes Pete Playdon Nuneaton Anti-Fascist Alliance.

Len McCluskey speaks to The Socialist: Building workers' confidence

Len McCluskey, Unite's general secretary, photo Suzanne Beishon

Interview with Len McCluskey, General secretary elect of Unite, Britian's biggest union You've only just been elected and already David Cameron is condemning you in Parliament - for correctly pointing out there's no such thing as an 'irresponsible strike'. What are your priorities as the new leader of an important union?

PCS: Vote 'yes' for action against cuts

Kevin Greenway, President of PCS MoJ group and Socialist Party member, addresses PCS protest outside Ministry of Justice , photo Paul Mattsson

The national executive (NEC) of civil service union PCS is launching a policy ballot urging members to vote 'yes' to reject the government's proposals on the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS), writes John McInally, PCS national vice-president, personal capacity.

London Underground strike most solid so far

Wales TUC leadership tries to stifle action to stop the cuts

A united battle for pensions

Workplace news in brief

North Korean artillery attack raises tensions

THE UNSTABLE military regime in North Korea has once again thrust itself into global headlines. On 23 November its artillery exchanged shellfire with South Korea on the island of Yeongpyeong, administered...

Portugal: 'Biggest strike action ever'

Climate change: Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe

Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

CLIMATE CHANGE is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says. Millions suffered great hardship...

Our health - A market for big business

YOUR HEALTH care is being privatised. Your body's ailments may worry you but to someone else they will be soon be a commodity to be bartered for, bought and sold on the free market, writes By an NHS healthworker.

Bankers: The new untouchables?