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Fighting the government’s attacks
On 28 March: Strike back against the Con-Dems
Mass united trade union action can stop cuts: We have the strength to defeat the coalition’s multi-billion pound pensions robbery; just look at recent victories achieved with much smaller forces than the alliance of trade unions who are preparing strike action on 28 March, writes Martin Powell-Davies
Strike back against the con-dems
Trade unions must build mass party
In January Labour leader Ed Miliband announced that a Labour government could not guarantee to reverse any cuts and would maintain the public sector pay freeze
A Guardian/ICM poll has shown that most people don’t want it. The Royal College of Nursing, other health colleges, health sections of unions Unison, Unite and GMB, academics and nine out of ten hospital doctors all oppose it
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day 2012
Women, capitalism and the cuts: International Women’s Day 2012 falls against the backdrop of ever more cuts being imposed by the coalition, writes Alicia Blackett.
N30 – Millions strike back at Con-Dem government on 30 November 2011, photo by Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party International Women’s Day schools
Socialist Party youth and students
“Give us jobs NOT slave labour”: On 3 March, Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) organised and took part in anti-workfare demos up and down the country, writes Iain Dalton, Leeds.
Youth Fight for Jobs protest against Workfare in Stratford’s Westfield shopping centre in London 25 February 2012, photo Senan
No cuts, No fees, Bring back EMA
Walkout 14 March: Students arriving at university in September will be the first to pay the new £9,000 tuition fees and by that time, EMA student payments could be a thing of the past. What can students do to change things
NUS elections – Vote Socialist Students for a fighting student leadership
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Kirklees marches to save child centres
Around 100 angry parents and their children demonstrated through the streets of Huddersfield on Saturday 3 March against Kirklees council’s proposals to mothball half of the 32 children’s centres, writes Mike Forster.
Kirklees Sure Start children centres lobby Kirklees council’s budget meeting, photo Huddersfield Socialist Party
Leeds Tenants Federation opposes Welfare Reform Bill
Become Coventry deputy mayor? Thanks, but no thanks!
Coventry council’s Labour leader John Mutton invited Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist to become the city’s deputy Lord Mayor in May, which would normally lead on to the position of Lord Mayor in 2013
Attack on pay defeated at Manchester’s NHS Trust
Stop prison guards housing asylum seekers – stop G4S!
Torquay NHS campaign: Over 40 activists from Bracknell, Reading, Ascot and Windsor attended a Bracknell public meeting on 29 February organised by Defend Our Community Services to save Heatherwood Hospital from closure, writes Terry Pearce
Socialist Party workplace news
Locked out Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) workers in Merseyside have voted decisively for continued action in their dispute, writes Harry Smith.
The Unison Higher Education sectional conference took place in Brighton on 2 March… You’d have thought that defending pensions would have been the key debate of the day.
Anti-blacklisting battle continues on building sites
Huge pay cuts were beaten by construction electricians’ mass protests and actions, but blacklisting remains
London election candidate named in employers’ blacklist
The Trades Unionist and Socialist Coalition has called for firms that used information to blacklist trade unionists and academics, to be banned from public sector contracts.
International socialist news and analysis
Quebec: Students engage in ‘indefinite’ general strike action
Tens of thousands in battle against massive rise in tuition fees: A powerful students’ struggle is sweeping over Quebec, the French speaking province of Canada. Over 65,000 university and high school students are currently engaged in an indefinite general strike
Spain: Thousands in student protests against education cuts
Revolution through Arab eyes – the Factory
Film review: David Johnson reviews a new documentary showing the history of struggle in the Middle East’s largest factory…
Socialist Party news and analysis
The welfare state is now a lucrative business – Emma Harrison’s contract as A4e chief was worth around £200 million
Workfare protest targets A4e, photo Socialist Party
G4S has controversially been given a £200 million deal to build and run a police station in Lincolnshire. But what are its credentials for this contract? asks Derek McMillan.