Socialist Party youth and students
Interview with a Jarrow marcher
Matt Whale, unemployed organiser for Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) spoke to the Socialist about the Jarrow march as it passes through Yorkshire.
The Jarrow March 2011 is building support everywhere it goes, photo by Paul Mattsson
Marching in the footsteps of history
Students should support 30 November strikes: On 8 September this year 283 out of 420 Greek higher education institutions were under occupation. This will remind many in this country of when over 50 universities in the UK were occupied
International socialist news and analysis
US: Occupy Wall Street – Demanding jobs not cuts
We are fighting back! Bryan Koulouris of Socialist Alternative, CWI in the US, spoke to the Socialist about the Occupy Wall Street movement which has been spreading across hundreds of towns and cities in the US
Wall Street, USA
Socialist Party workplace news
Strike on 30 November – no secret talks
For democratic control of all negotiations and industrial action: Trade unionists across Britain will have been angered to see reports that the TUC general secretary went to the Tory party conference a couple of weeks ago – not to protest at the government’s anti-working class policies, but to hold secret talks to try to avert “mass strikes”
‘We have not gone away’ say Southampton council workers
Last Thursday saw the latest strike action of Southampton council workers. Unite called out its 700 members across the city in solidarity with 250 Unison care workers
Two months on – national strike action needed Rank and file electricians in the construction industry have been meeting in Scotland, Manchester and now London over the last two weeks
60 printers sacked as bosses make a million
Socialist Party news and analysis
Sovereign debt crisis, recession… No way out under capitalism
Banks continue to demand government bailouts; an ever-deepening sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the USA; mass unemployment and cuts in services on a level not seen since the 1930s; a widening gulf between rich and poor….
Cameron’s big ‘them and us’ society
Fox takes cronyism to new level
Fox by name, fox by nature it seems. For despite the mounting and overwhelming evidence of cronyism against Tory MP Liam Fox, the defence minister remains in his post
Wales Assembly budget: Labour piles on the misery
Con-Dems’ policies increase poverty
Ireland by-election: The death of former Fianna Fáil government finance minister, Brian Lenihan, has resulted in a by-election being called for the Dublin West seat of the Dáil
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
NHS protesters occupy Westminster Bridge
Hundreds of protesters blocked Westminster Bridge next to the Houses of Parliament on Sunday 9 October to demonstrate their support for a publicly owned NHS, writes Neil Cafferky.
Health campaigners take Ascot by storm
Coventry by-election helps build socialist alternative to cuts
London elections – more support for TU/anti-cuts stand
Socialist Party fundraising
Support the struggle against all the cuts: The Socialist Party is asking all its members and supporters to make a donation to the Socialism 2011 finance appeal, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
Socialist history
Battle of Cable Street 1936 – When workers stopped the fascists
This month marks the 75th anniversary of what has gone down in history as the Battle of Cable Street, writes Tony Aitman.
Cable Street 1936: Anti-fascists defied repeated baton charges by police to stop the fascists marching through London’s East End
The Socialist – readers’ comments
Portrait of a pension pilferer
Maggie Thatcher was Maggie the Milk Snatcher – a byword for Tory penny-pinching cruelty. Francis Maude will go down in history as Maude the Pension Pilferer – if we let him get away with it, writes Derek McMillan.