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The Socialist issue 687

28 September 2011

Mass strikes can kick out Con-Dems

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The Socialist issue 687

Building for 30 November strike

spotMass 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).

Strike till we win - No cuts - placard, photo Paul Mattsson

Photo Paul Mattsson


Jarrow march for jobs

spotMarching for a future

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

Marching for a Future


spotJoin the Jarrow marchers on their 330 mile journey!

Rallies and protests are taking place along the route

spotWhy are you marching?

spotWhy are you supporting the march?

spotJarrow 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

spotWorld 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”.

24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now - Socialist Party placard, photo by Paul Mattsson

Pic Paul Mattsson


spotPro-business Labour offers crumbs and promises cuts

Socialist history

spot1911 – 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

Women workers striking against povety wages at Pink’s in Bermondsey in 1911, photo by TUC library collections


Socialist Party youth and students

spot£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

Fighting fees – student demonstration in central London, photo Rob Sutton


spotFight fees and cuts – join Socialist Students!

spotYouth 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

Bankers are the real looters – Hackney – Tottenham demo after the riots, photo Paul Mattsson


spotWhat I spent my EMA on

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

spotAs 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

News International Newspapers Ltd, photo by Paul Mattsson


spotScotland: SNP do the Con-Dems’ dirty work

spotDale Farm – call off the evictions of residents

spotMetal thefts – The hidden crime of capitalism

spotSocialism 2011: A weekend of discussion and debate

spotNews in brief

International socialist news and analysis

spotAs 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

Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI, on massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle


Socialist Party workplace news

spotConstruction 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

Construction workers protest at the Tyne tunnel site in North Tyneside, photo Elaine Brunskill


spotGreenwich Unite takes fight to cuts councillors

spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotPFI 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

March to save the NHS 17 May 2011, photo Paul Mattsson


spotSalford says: Save Lancaster House!

spotStop coastguard cuts!

spotStroud demo against private sharks killing the NHS

Demo against NHS privatisation, Stroud, 24.9.11, Chris Lamb


Socialist Party review

spotFilm 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

spotMy 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…

spotMore whacko ideas from Tories

spotStanding 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

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