In this week's issue:

The Socialist 8 December 2010, issue Movement to defeat tuition fees and cuts: This is just the start!

This is just the start!

November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan

Hundreds of thousands of young people have taken to the streets against the Con-Dem destruction of education, writes Suzanne Beishon.

The fight goes on against fees and cuts

Resisting police intimidation

Youth Fight for Education launch

Jethro Waldon addresses Youth Fight for Education launch meeting

Sunday 5 December saw the launch rally of Youth Fight for Education (YFE) - a campaign formed by Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) to help coordinate some of the actions taking place in defence of education and with the aim of giving a strategy for victory to the protests, writes Michael Wrack, Westminster University YFE.

Youth Fight for Jobs conference report

Socialist Students conference

30 November: student day of action on cuts and fees

Con-Dems can be defeated: Welsh Assembly backs down on EMA and fees

Organising a college walkout

Cuts cost lives

Kettled students protesting against massive fees rise and the abolition of the EMA, photo Suzanne Beishon

Council cuts put most vulnerable at risk: The Tory/Liberal-led Birmingham council is preparing to trim £300 million from its budget by 2014 by cutting 10,000 jobs and devastating services, a Unison member writes.

Tories' secret job cuts plan exposed

'We need fighting unions to halt cuts'

Nottingham march against billionaire tax dodgers

All-Britain Anti-Cuts Campaign to be launched

NSSN lobby of TUC, photo Dave Beale

National Shop Stewards Network: Just as the student movement reaches Day X, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) has set out the agenda for its anti-cuts conference on 22 January, writes Rob Williams, NSSN vice-chair.

Building the anti-cuts movement

Scotland: Unison votes for fighting cuts strategy

TUSC calls election campaign conference

Keep the Post Public campaign

Keep the post public coalition - CWU rally and Lobby

Housing under attack: Ripping off the roof over our heads

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

The Con-Dem government plans a 63% cut in funding for social house building. They want to remove security of tenure for new social housing tenants and are introducing massive cuts in housing benefit...

Medirest health workers need help to fight multinational

As we reported last week, workers employed by Medirest at hospitals in Buckinghamshire are balloting for strike action to achieve their rightful terms and conditions...

Campaign stops health bosses' closure plan

Don't let profit become the bottom line in care

Battle for Barking

RMT general secretary Bob Crow addresses an RMT protest against the BNP in Barking, east London, photo Senan

TV documentary, reviewed by Naomi Byron
DESPITE THE crushing electoral defeat for the British National Party (BNP) in May 2010, and the internal struggles it caused them, the discontent and anger they were exploiting still exist in Barking...

Hull: racist BNP demo stopped

Protesters demand halt to opencast coal mining in Bangladesh

Protesters demand halt to opencast coal mining in Bangladesh outside mining company Global Coal Management Resources Ltd annual general meeting , photo M Thain

PROTESTERS VOICED their anger at Global Coal Management Resources Ltd (GCM), outside the mining company's annual general meeting (AGM) in central London on 6 December, writes Manny Thain.

Egypt's regime perpetrates a massive election fraud

WIDESPREAD INTIMIDATION of voters and opposition candidates and blatant ballot rigging resulted in 'victory' for Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) in the country's recent parliamentary elections, writes David Johnson.

Warmonger Rajapaksa forced to abandon his Oxford Union speech

Kazakhstan - a repressive and corrupt state