In this week's issue:

The Socialist 18 January 2012, issue Stand Up to Tory Bullies

Stand up to Tory bullies

Strikers marching through London on 30 November 2011, photo Senan

Cameron's Con-Dem coalition wants workers to pay for the bosses' economic crisis. This millionaires' government wants to cut workers' jobs, pay and conditions such as pensions. In the public sector...

Pensions attacks can still be defeated

Labour leadership approves the Con-Dem cuts

Cameron's attack on Scottish independence referendum backfires

Welfare Reform Bill:- Lords compromise is no victory

Ofsted: "requires improvement"

John Lewis economy: another fantasy from Corporal Clegg

Them & Us

Keep private vultures out of our NHS!

Public Health not private wealth - protest against privatisation in the NHS 2011, photo by Paul Mattsson

Breast implant scandal exposes private healthcare: The Health and Social Care Bill, currently working its way through Parliament, is a huge threat to our NHS, writes Sue Powell.

End the slave labour culture of workfare

Youth Fight for Jobs on the Jarrow march, in London marching past Parliament, photo by Sarah Wrack

The clocks are being turned back. The future for young people is looking like it has been ripped from the pages of Dickens' novels - with the Con-Dem government and local governments playing the role...

Electricians' national meeting plans next steps in battle against pay cut

Construction workers’ strike on 14 December: Corus Redcar electricians, photo Elaine Brunskill

Electricians from across England, Scotland and Wales gathered in Birmingham on 14 January to plan the next steps for the fight in defence of pay rates and their skilled trade, writes Hugh Caffrey, Socialist Party.

Unilever workers say hands off our pensions

South Yorkshire Stagecoach bus drivers take eighth day of strike action

Jobs massacre at La Senza

Doctors support call for action

Rob Windsor: socialist fighter and Coventry Socialist Party councillor 1964-2012

Rob Windsor

On 14 January Rob Windsor, socialist fighter and previous Socialist Party councillor in Coventry, lost his long struggle against liver disease and died at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth hospital.

1972 Derry - "this was murder"

Forty years ago, on Sunday 30 January 1972, members of the Parachute Regiment (the Paras) shot 27 unarmed civilians, (14 of whom died) on a protest through the barricaded Bogside area of Derry in Northern Ireland...

EDL intimidation fails in Barking

EDL in Barking

Protected by a large wedge of police, roughly 100 supporters of the racist and divisive English Defence League (EDL) marched through Barking town centre in east London on Saturday 14 January...

Save community schools - no to academies

Protect women's rights - oppose the abstinence bill

Greece: Non-payment movement against new housing tax

Massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle

In October 2011 the Greek Pasok government of George Papandreou (just before being forced out of office), announced the implementation of a new housing tax through people's electricity bills, writes Christina Ziakka, Xekinima (CWI in Greece).

Irish 'poll tax' battle has begun

Nigeria: Fuel strike suspended