In this week's issue:

The Socialist 7 September 2011, issue Strike together to defend pensions

Strike together to defend pensions

Newcastle: 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions , photo Elaine Brunskill

If there is one phrase that should hang around this government like a concrete necklace, it is Tory chancellor George Osborne's "We're all in this together", writes Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor, Coventry.

Mobilise the power of the working class

Mass workers' movement - the only way to make the super-rich pay

Half-million strong TUC demo, central London, 26 March 2011, against the government's cuts, photo Senan

It is a sign of the bankrupt nature of modern capitalism and its political representatives that taxation of the rich is so low some of them are asking to pay more

Tory bribes to promote socially divisive 'Free Schools' agenda

School students and teachers protest against academies at Tile Hill Wood school in Coventry, photo Coventry Socialist Party

Students in England and Wales returned to school this week. If Tory education secretary Michael Gove could give one piece of advice to them what would it be? asks James Kerr

NHS reaches a tipping point

Reject health bill attacks on abortion

The riots, Clarke and the "broken penal system"

Fast news

New pamphlet - The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Socialist Party

Miliband to bury Labour

Consequences of 9/11: a world turned upside down

9/11 attack

Ten years after the twin towers came crashing down in New York, Peter Taaffe assesses the changed world situation. In the aftermath of that terrorist attack, US imperialism unleashed mass slaughter in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Bristol marches against home care sell-off

Bristol

'Main political cliques all support privatisation': "Thank you, you are bloody marvellous," ended Bob Taylor's emotional speech at a Bristol rally on Saturday 3 September against the selling off of home care in the city

EDL kept out of Tower Hamlets by thousands protesting

Stop the Dale Farm evictions

Confronting a Labour cutter

Scotland - Unison calls for pensions strike

Unison Social care workers on strike in Scotland, photo Duncan Brown

The mood among Unison members for strike action on being forced to pay more for a worse pension was driven home at the Scottish local government Unison conference on 2 September, writes a Glasgow Unison member.

Picket lines at police stations

Workplace News in brief

Youth March For Jobs

Youth Fight for Jobs :: March for Jobs :: Jarrow to London :: October 2011

75 years ago 200 unemployed men from Jarrow marched from their home in the North East to London to demand jobs and an end to their poverty conditions. Youth Fight for Jobs is marching their route again

One in a million...fighting back!

NEET figures still rising

Local Housing Allowance

£36,000 for a degree

Them and Us by Will Hutton

Book review: 'Them and Us' by former Observer editor Will Hutton, originally published in 2010, is now available in paperback. Bob Severn reviews the book...

Libya after Gaddafi - Independent workers' action needed

Almost every day there are warning signs of the dark shadows that Nato's intervention has thrown over the Libyan revolution, writes Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).

Indian high commission protest over Tamil death sentences