Building for 30 November strike
Mass strikes can kick out Con-Dems
Get ready for 30 November: On 30 November, two to three million public sector workers will be on strike to defend their pensions. More workers will be out than on the first day of the 1926 general strike, writes Rob Williams, chair, National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN).
Photo Paul Mattsson
Jarrow march for jobs
On 1 October, Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) activists start a 330 mile march from Jarrow to London. Why? Because we’ve had enough, and we know that it doesn’t have to be this way, writes Ben Robinson, YFJ national chair.
Marching for a Future
Join the Jarrow marchers on their 330 mile journey!
Rallies and protests are taking place along the route
Why are you supporting the march?
Jarrow march – council puts high price on right to protest
As the final preparations are made for the Jarrow to London March for Jobs, starting on 1 October organisers face a massive threat to the right to protest
The Socialist’s editorials
World economy in meltdown – we won’t pay for capitalist crisis
In a recent address to the Canadian parliament, David Cameron bluntly said: “Growth in Europe is stalled. Growth in America has stalled. The effects of the Japanese earthquake, high oil and food prices have created a drag on growth. We’re not quite staring down the barrel, but the pattern is clear”.
Pic Paul Mattsson
Pro-business Labour offers crumbs and promises cuts
Socialist history
1911 – Bermondsey women’s uprising
A century ago, women in the trade unions numbered only a few thousand. Many working class women worked in the most appalling conditions in sweatshops and were outside the trade unions’ ranks…
Women workers striking against povety wages at Pink’s in Bermondsey in 1911, photo by TUC library collections
Socialist Party youth and students
£6,000 uni fees? An offer we can refuse!
Students starting university this year face many obstacles to getting the most out of their time in higher education
Fighting fees – student demonstration in central London, photo Rob Sutton
Fight fees and cuts – join Socialist Students!
Youth demand a future in Tottenham
An interview with a young person in Tottenham on the ‘Give Our Kids A Future’ demonstration
Bankers are the real looters – Hackney – Tottenham demo after the riots, photo Paul Mattsson
The college I attended had a well thought out policy: ‘In order to save as much money as possible, we will supply the bare minimum in textbooks, paper, pens, computers and transport’, writes Jack Walker, Hull.
Socialist Party news and analysis
As Murdochgate scandal goes on – release Tommy Sheridan!
What do you give a billionaire media mogul whose company is mired in scandal, illegality and corruption? Why, a 47% pay rise, that’s what
News International Newspapers Ltd, photo by Paul Mattsson
Scotland: SNP do the Con-Dems’ dirty work
Dale Farm – call off the evictions of residents
Metal thefts – The hidden crime of capitalism
Socialism 2011: A weekend of discussion and debate
International socialist news and analysis
As debt crisis deepens… Greek workers and youth in revolt
Greece has recently experienced a barrage of strikes by different sections of the working class – involving transport workers, teachers, some council workers, taxi drivers, mental health workers and others – against the Pasok government’s latest austerity measures…
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI, on massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
Socialist Party workplace news
Construction workers strike to defend agreements
On 26 September around 400 electricians from the West Burton power station site in Nottinghamshire walked out on strike for the day, writes Alistair Tice.
Construction workers protest at the Tyne tunnel site in North Tyneside, photo Elaine Brunskill
Greenwich Unite takes fight to cuts councillors
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
PFI schemes – a national scandal
Stop the health service cutbacks!: Tory health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has said that 60 hospitals in 22 National Health Service (NHS) Trusts are facing severe financial difficulties and are making cutbacks because of rip-off payments owed under Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts…
March to save the NHS 17 May 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
Salford says: Save Lancaster House!
Stroud demo against private sharks killing the NHS
Socialist Party review
Film review: Tinker tailor soldier spy
1973: London is drab, faded by economic decline. The optimism of the post-war boom is gone. The world is split into two opposed systems, the capitalist west and the planned economies of the east
Readers’ comments
My impressions of the Work Programme
A year of countless hopeful, un-replied-to applications and a few disappointing interviews. My sense of dread in the jobcentre was even greater than usual with the prospect of the Work Programme…
Standing up for our pension rights
The Gloucestershire Echo recently ran a feature on the pros and cons of going on strike to defend pensions, Socialist Party member Rob Bishop put the position for the strikes, against the arguments of a local Tory MP