Socialist Party editorial
Economic crisis in ‘them and us’ Britain
Wages fall: Office for National Statistics 2010 survey of hours and earnings
Anti-cuts action
Cuts in jobs and services: We are fighting back!
Workers across the country are facing cuts. In Birmingham, not only are 7,000 council jobs under threat but the Con-Dem council wants to offshore the IT department to super-exploit workers in India…
Half-million strong TUC demo, central London, 26 March 2011, against the government’s cuts , photo by Paul Mattsson
Birmingham: city of a thousand cuts
Birmingham council workers strike, April 2008, included Unison, GMB, NUT and PCS workers, photo S O’Neill
Human rights service staff defend jobs
Socialist Party workplace news
CWU conference – unanimous call for 24-hour general strike
At the Communications Workers Union (CWU) conference at the end of May the scale of the attacks on postal and telecoms workers was put alongside the wider government attacks…
Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, addresses the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
Strike action against pensions attack at Sheffield university
University staff strike in Sheffield to save pensions, photo Yorkshire Socialist Party
Mood for action among Unison members in Waltham Forest
Saltend dispute: lessons for future struggles
The heroic struggle for nearly three months by engineering construction workers locked out from the BP Saltend bio-ethanol plant, near Hull, has ended, writes Alistair Tice.
Scaffolders and electricians, employed by contractors for Vivergo in Teeside, protest at British Sugar. They voted by about 90% to walk out again in support of the locked out BP/Vivergo Redhall workers at Saltend, Hull, photo Socialist Party
Socialist Party feature
Fighting the anti-strike legislation
The Con-Dems’ attacks: The anti-trade union laws are important weapons in the bosses’ armoury. Business secretary Vince Cable has threatened this week to make the laws even tougher, in the light of coordinated strike action…
RMT and TSSA members strike against cuts on the London Underground, photo by Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party women
“Yes means yes! No means no! Whatever we wear, wherever we go!” was the chant as women and men took to the streets of Newcastle on 4 June in a lively ‘slutwalk’ protest…
Slutwalk protests: fighting back against sexism and discrimination in Newcastle, photo by E Brunskill
Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is possible
Film review: World write, an ‘education charity committed to global equality’, has produced a new documentary based on the work of the tireless, though unfortunately neglected in Britain, human rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), writes Indianna Purcell.
Sylvia Pankhurst protesting against British policy in India, at Trafalgar Square, 1932
International socialist news and analysis
‘Butcher of Bosnia’ faces trial
But western powers also have blood on their hands: Bosnian Serb ex-General Ratko Mladic is now detained by the ‘International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’, facing charges of genocide
Tamil Solidarity: important resolution agreed at the European Parliament
Young people fighting back
Protests grow as young people say: ‘We want a future!’
“We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers!” say Spanish protesters. Their “real democracy” movement expresses genuine aspirations for a society in which people have control over…
Socialist Party news and analysis
Southern Cross – Social care on the brink
Southern Cross Healthcare is on the brink of collapse. This company provides residential care to 31,000 people and has 44,000 employees
Southern Cross Healthcare’s private residential home care in crisis, photo B Severn
Vulnerable patients abused at privately run Bristol hospital
End the ‘insane’ pursuit of oil profit
In parts of the USA you can set fire to your tap water. Now an enterprising company seems to want to bring the practice to Britain, writes Pete Mason.