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The Socialist issue 689

12 October 2011

Cameron’s big ‘them and us’ society

2011 Back issues


The Socialist issue 689

Socialist Party youth and students

spotInterview 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

The Jarrow March 2011 is building support everywhere it goes, photo by Paul Mattsson


spotMarching in the footsteps of history

spotLow pay, no way!

spotProtest, demonstrate, occupy

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

spotUS: 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

Wall Street, USA


Socialist Party workplace news

spotStrike 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”

spot‘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

Southampton council workers on strike 6.10.11, Nick Chaffey


spotConstruction electricians

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

spot60 printers sacked as bosses make a million

spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotSovereign 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….

spotCameron’s big ‘them and us’ society

spotFox 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

spotWales Assembly budget: Labour piles on the misery

spotKinnock’s bigotry

Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair


spotCon-Dems’ policies increase poverty

spotFast news

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

spotNHS 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.

spotHealth campaigners take Ascot by storm

spotCoventry by-election helps build socialist alternative to cuts

spotLondon elections – more support for TU/anti-cuts stand

Socialist Party fundraising

spotSocialism 2011 finance appeal

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

spotBattle 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

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

spotPortrait 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.

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