Stand up to Tory bullies

Pensions attacks can still be defeated

What we think: The public sector pensions battle is at an important turning point. The decision of the Unison and GMB union leaderships to break up the united front of striking unions which saw up to two million workers taking action on 30 November is a setback and will inevitably lead to a sober reappraisal of tactics and strategy.

Labour leadership approves the Con-Dem cuts

Ed ‘Moribund’ and the Labour leadership have had a brainwave to boost Labour’s poll ratings – their slogan going into the next election is “Vote for us and we will freeze your pay and cut your services”! writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.

Cameron’s attack on Scottish independence referendum backfires

Welfare Reform Bill:- Lords compromise is no victory

On 11 January, the House of Lords rejected the Con-Dem coalition government’s proposal in its misnamed welfare reform bill to limit the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) that is contribution-based for disabled and sick claimants to one year, a disabled activist writes.

Ofsted: “requires improvement”

John Lewis economy: another fantasy from Corporal Clegg

Them & Us

Keep private vultures out of our NHS!

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

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

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

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

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

Six hundred parents, teachers, governors and other local residents were at a meeting at Downhills primary school in Haringey, north London, to build the campaign to stop the school from becoming a ‘forced academy’, writes a Haringey Socialist Party member.

Protect women’s rights – oppose the abstinence bill

In May 2011, Tory MP Nadine Dorries made an attack on sex education via a private member’s bill. Dorries proposed that girls be given “information and advice” on the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity…

Greece: Non-payment movement against new housing tax

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

A massive campaign against a new ‘Household Charge’ has begun in Ireland. The new flat tax affects 1.6 million households across the country, including the overwhelming majority of ordinary workers…

Nigeria: Fuel strike suspended