In this week's issue:

The Socialist 3 August 2011, issue Unite against all cuts

UNITE AGAINST ALL CUTS

Southampton council workers marching against cuts

TUC must call action: "We can't afford a pay cut or losing our increments. People are beginning to see what they've lost and for some its £1,000. We are being prepared for privatisation and don't want it.

Building a workers' political alternative to the establishment parties

Norway: right wing terrorist killings

United working class struggle needed: The terrible mass killings carried out by far right activist Anders Breivik have horrified the world

Waltham Forest: a victory for unity

NHS cuts from a nurse's viewpoint

photo Paul Mattsson

Cameron's government claims to be 'defending the NHS.' He claims the health care budget is 'ring fenced', writes an NHS mental health nurse.

Gloucestershire NHS

Eurozone and USA - Debt crisis

Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI

The price of capitalist failure: Governments in Europe and the US are making working class people pay for the crisis caused by the bankers and the capitalist system.
The Greek bailout, welcomed by the European ruling classes, will do nothing for the Greek masses

Kazakhstan oil strike: solidarity urgent

Syria: State unleashes new terror

Spain:"Throwing a shoe at the system"

Bombardier

photo Paul Mattsson

Save jobs, renationalise UK rail and train building: Around 10,000 marched against job cuts on 23 July in the biggest demonstration in Derby for decades.

Reinstate Paddy Brennan!

Workplace news in brief

MARCH FOR JOBS!

Merthyr to Cardiff 4-6 August: Tory work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, singled out Merthyr Tydfil when he implied that the main barrier to jobseekers finding work was their own apathy - 'why don't they just get on a bus to Cardiff?' he asked

Disability rights

Vicious Tory bullies hit...: Government ministers, aided and abetted by the right wing media, have labelled the majority of disability benefit claimants as scroungers after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said 39% were fully fit for work

The great PFI schools rip off - once again!

News in brief

Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The south east region of the TUC and transport union RMT recently hosted a new interpretation of the famous play by Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, writes Bill Mullins.

Llanelli railway riots 1911

"Workers of the world unite": This month commemorates the centenary of the Llanelli Railway Riots in Wales when railway workers participating in a national rail strike, along with the local community, faced the guns and bayonets of Churchill's troops...