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Fighting the government attacks
Kick out the Con-Dems and end austerity
Strikers marching through London on 30 November 2011, photo Senan
A strategy to stop austerity and bring down the government of the super-rich
What we think The Con-Dem coalition is Increasingly showing its weakness. Calls for an inquiry into whether Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt broke ministerial codes brings the Murdochgate scandal to the doors of Downing…
Marching through Leeds on 30 November ‘N30’ public sector strike, photo by Iain Dalton
Fight privatisation: Save our libraries
National Shop Stewards Network 6th annual conference
Saturday 9 June 11am – 4pm
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Speakers include:
* Bob Crow, transport union RMT general secretary
* Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary
* A leading Rank and File member of the construction workers’ campaign
* Kevin Courtney, NUT deputy general secretary
Socialist Party news and analysis
Rich list: The good times roll for the 0.00001%
“Those with the broadest shoulders will bear the largest load… we’re all in this together.” These, David Cameron’s famous words to his first Conservative Party conference as prime minister, asked ordinary people to close their eyes to reality, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield.
Bankers protest by Walthamstow Socialist Party, photo by The Socialist
Leveson exposes links between Tories and Murdoch
Chancellor George Gideon Osborne assured us recently that he’s not quite wealthy enough to be eligible for the 50p top rate of tax which he just scrapped, so wouldn’t personally benefit.
Socialist Students
NUS conference Support for left and for action
The National Union of Students (NUS) conference is usually the place to see undemocratic manoeuvring by unelected bureaucrats and New Labour careerists. But this year it was different, writes Ian Pattison, Socialist Students national chair.
Young people march for a future: Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students on the 29 January 2011 London demonstration against education cuts, photo Senan
Housing crisis
Social dumping won’t solve the housing crisis
Labour-run Newham council in east London decided recently to try to uproot 500 local families and dump them in Stoke, 160 miles away…
Socialist Party feature
Don’t accept the misery of austerity
Britain is in the depths of economic recession. The threat of unemployment, poverty and even homelessness hangs over the lives of millions of people. Unemployment is climbing towards three million…
All three main parties accept capitalism and austerity , photo by Sheffield Socialist Party
Socialist Party workplace news
Unison leadership ‘woefully inadequate’ in face of cuts
Unison’s health conference could have been a golden opportunity to establish a national strategy and campaign to defeat the relentless attacks unleashed by the Con-Dem government, writes Roger Davey, Unison health Service Group Executive (SGE), personal capacity.
Unison members join the 30 November N30 public sector strike in Leeds, photo by Iain Dalton
Rotherham teachers stand up to bullying
Strike at Swinton Comprehensive school in Rotherham, 27.4.12, photo by Alistair Tice
Bilborough College Nottingham strike Action over five-term years
UCU joins 10 May strike – student solidarity needed
Pension privatisation: Hundreds of pension staff were forced out of the public sector on 1 May. The government agency that administers pensions of 1.5 million working and retired civil servants became the first ‘mutual’ …
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition feature
TUSC: the electoral alternative to the parties of the rich
Round-up across the country: All together in Liverpool to support TUSC mayoral stand: 300 people attended the Liverpool pre-election rally for mayoral candidate Tony Mulhearn and other Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates across Merseyside, writes Dave Walsh.
TUSC on the 28 March 2012 NUT London strike and demonstration, photo Socialist Party
Socialist Party campaigns
Thug attack won’t stop anti-racist work
On Saturday 28 April trade union activists were attacked by racists claiming to have allegiance to ‘March for England’, closely linked to the English Defence League (EDL)…
Youth Fight for Jobs placard on the successful anti-EDL demonstration in Tower Hamlets in June 2010, photo P Mason
Socialist MEP discusses way forward for Tamils struggle
Sheffield marches against sexism and cuts
International socialist news and analysis
Capitalist crisis: ‘Up to half of all Icelandic families are bankrupt’
Iceland’s economy is growing again after the deep recession that struck in 2008. But the economic and political crisis is far from over, writes Per-Åke Westerlund. From Offensiv, newspaper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden).
Kazakhstan: Socialists jailed by regime
Environment and socialism
The government’s fractured energy policy
A dangerous gas extraction practice – ‘fracking’ – will likely get government approval in Chancellor Osborne and energy secretary Ed Davey’s new “dash for gas”, writes Pete Mason, East London Socialist Party.
Hydro fracking, photo Creative Commons/ Mike Norton
How socialism could save the environment Special limited offer for readers of the Socialist: £7 including postage. By Pete Dickenson.