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The Socialist 12 January 2011, issue Bankers get billions - We get cuts

Bankers get billions - We get cuts

Youth Fight for jobs campaigning in Cardiff against the bankers bailouts and bonuses, photo Cardiff YFJ

FOR GREEDY, self-serving banking industry bosses, failure is rewarded by fat pay-offs and lavish pensions, writes Tony Mulhearn.

March for a future - Join the demonstrations on 29 January

Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, November 2009, photo Dave Carr

David Cameron has declared he'll deliver "the most pro-business...agenda ever unleashed by a government", writes Tracy Edwards, PCS young members' organiser (personal capacity).

More attacks on rights for young workers

Axe falls on courses at UWIC

Students at Leeds Trinity re-occupy

Tunisia: Wave of protests against repressive regime

CLASHES BETWEEN protesters and police over unemployment, the high cost of living and the repressive regime of president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, are reportedly spreading across Tunisia, with the latest protests in the cities of Regueb, Thala and Kasserine in the country's southern and central regio...

Rage at inequality fires workers' action

NHS cleaners employed by Compass Medirest on a 48 hour strike in Southampton and Buckinghamshire, photo Southampton Socialist Party

"We have to let management know we won't accept this pay freeze anymore," were the angry words of one striking journalist at the Southampton Echo picket last week, writes Nick Chaffey, Secretary Southampton Shop Stewards Network (SSSN).

NSSN National: Anti-Cuts Conference

NSSN debate: The way forward for the anti-cuts movement

National Shop Stewards Network: Strategy and tactics - a dialogue

Labour baroness wants politics kept out of the Forest of Dean

Fighting Labour's cuts in Waltham Forest

Jobs cut while the rich carry on partying

Greenwich protest against council cuts 29 November 2010 - riot police were called

On 6 January nearly 8,000 council workers employed by Greenwich received notices of dismissal. The council wants to sack its entire workforce, with no entitlement to redundancy pay, and offer new contracts...

The plot thickens at News International

'Big Oil' cuts corners on safety to boost profits

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Councils ramp up service charges

Campaigners tell PM: 'No to Royal Mail privatisation'

Police moles attempt to discredit protest movements

Unison rejects NHS pay freeze

Defend Whittington Hospital Campaign demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson

Unison's health service group executive has decided to completely reject the employers' proposal of a two year pay freeze in return for no compulsory redundancies, Socialist Party members on the Unison health SGE write.

Kirklees council: First round victory in cuts battle

Darlington: Newsquest strikes continue to spread

Rotherham teachers strike

Workplace news in brief