Enough is enough! Make N30 the start of a fight to stop all cuts

This government of millionaires claimed that its savage cuts in public spending would eliminate Britain’s structural deficit by 2014-15, but it has now admitted this is impossible

Reasons to be on strike

Union reps prepare for N30: My partner and I are union reps in the public sector. Over the last few weeks we have been giving people information on pensions and the strike ballots

Capitalism is crisis – there is an alternative – fight for socialism!

Con-Dems worsen the housing crisis

It isn’t surprising that the Con-Dems fear that housing is becoming a toxic issue. New housing proposals, announced on 21 November, are woefully inadequate. They come nowhere near reversing earlier cuts…

Massive job cuts undermining NHS

Millions unemployed – workers and students must unite and fight!

Them & Us

Tragic effect of recession

What a tragic waste of human life this economic crisis is creating! In the Socialist (issue 694), we read about the Warwickshire couple who committed suicide because they didn’t have enough to live on…

Why I became a socialist

As a teenager in 2008 I left college with great confidence in finding work. However life is all about timing. I had ‘chosen’ one of the world’s worst recessions to try to find my first job

Jarrow marchers put forward an alternative

No answers from politicians on Newsnight

On Tuesday 15 November, I was asked to appear on a live Newsnight debate alongside 29 other young people who were either unemployed or underemployed, writes Ian Pattison, Jarrow marcher.

Save Coventry Sure Start

Update: Occupy

Support the anti-cuts election challenge

Oppose Tory, Liberal and Labour cuts: As trade unionists prepare for the biggest ever public sector industrial action, many are also thinking about the political side to their struggle

State intimidation of young protesters

Tories and Labour fail to give ‘Any Answers’

Women: sick of sexism, discrimination and cuts?

Mansfield – build houses, create jobs

2,000 young people in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire can’t find work. Over 9,000 people in Mansfield are on the council housing waiting list. So why have building workers been thrown on the dole?

Pensions protest in Maude’s constituency

West Sussex Teachers’ Association (WSTA), with the backing of Unison and other public sector unions, is holding a protest in Horsham, Sussex

Why Europe’s capitalist leaders cannot save the floundering eurozone project

Europe in turmoil, a socialist analysis, 18 June 2005: The capitalist leaders of the European Union are incapable of resolving the ever deepening sovereign debt crisis afflicting many countries in Europe today…

Ruling PSOE battered in Spanish general election

Poisoned chalice of dealing with the crisis handed to PP: As widely expected, last week’s Spanish general election saw the right-wing Popular Party (PP) win an overall parliamentary majority, although its percentage share of the vote barely rose

Syria: Eight months of mass protests met with bloody brutality

United working class-led movement needed for real regime change: Grenade attacks by Syrian army defectors on the ruling Baath party headquarters in Damascus and a few days earlier on an air force intelligence centre mark a new phase in the Syrian uprising

Egyptian masses fight for real change

Greece and Italy get unelected technocrats – Southampton gets chief executives!

A November Southampton city council meeting approved the ‘change programme’, newspeak for the wholesale privatisation of council services, writes Gavin Marsh, Southampton Anti-Cuts Union.

Construction workers fight pay cuts

Fire service cuts

Bus drivers strike over pay

Workplace In brief

Pension mythbuster: Teachers’ union NUT has revealed that £46.4 billion more has been paid into the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) since its foundation in 1923, than has been paid out

Obituary – Geoff Atkins

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of comrade Geoff Atkins following a long struggle with cancer, writes Nick Chaffey.