In this week's issue:

The Socialist 25 July 2012, issue Olympic Britain - We’re priced out

On your marks.... Get set.... Fight back!

The Youth Fight for Jobs Austerity Games held in Hackney Marshes 24 July 2012 highlighted the plight of young people, photo Paul Mattsson

Olympic Britain - we're priced out: Make the super-rich pay for the crisis - not the 99%!...

Outsourcing fails again. For publicly owned and run services!

£13 trillion hidden from tax by super-rich

Not-guilty verdict in Ian Tomlinson case

Olympic Watch

Them & Us

Kazakhstan - Workers struggle against bloody, corrupt regime

Kazakhstan embassy protest to free Bolat Atabayev, photo Dave Carr

Recently 400 socialists from across Europe and all around the world met in Belgium at the Summer School of the CWI...

Spain's austerity government is facing revolt from below

Miners light up Madrid and show the way to struggle!

1972: dockers face down the Tory government

"Britain came within inches of a general strike": "Arise Ye Workers" read the banner as five London dockers were carried shoulder high from Pentonville Prison in London, writes Roger Thomas.

Austerity Games highlights plight of young people

As the world's eyes focus on the Olympics, young people from across the country arrived on Hackney Marshes, east London, to compete in the alternative Austerity Games.

Save our jobs: We need a 24-hour general strike

Newcastle pride

Pre-emptive arrests: "straight out of 1984"

Kick private profiteers out of the NHS

Exposed - the real threat of privatisation: A leaked letter to doctors from a Coventry hospital chief executive has exposed the reality of allowing the private sector into the NHS

Virgin vultures swoop on vulnerable people's services

Leicester: Not one cut in the NHS

Kirkby campaigners get support

Olympic protest as South London Healthcare trust forced into administration

Olympic victory for London bus workers

London bus workers have voted to accept the Olympics bonus deal offered by all companies operating Transport for London routes

Solidarity with PCS members fighting to defend services

RMT demo in Portsmouth against Condor's 'sweatships'

Remploy strike a big success

Workplace news in brief

TV review: "What have the Olympics done for me?"

BBC Three's Free Speech series recently held a discussion on the Olympic Games. The main topic was on the question "what have the Olympics done for me?", writes Paul Callanan, Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser.

Save our server!

The Socialist Party has launched an appeal to raise £12,000 to enable us to buy a new computer server. We are getting a great response from Socialist Party members and readers of the Socialist, writes Ken Douglas.

Summer printing schedule

Socialist Party Summer Camp