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26 September 2012
General strike, the biggest weapon
I have worked for 50 years in the construction industry and I'm a member of the Ucatt union. In 2011 I went on the 26 March anti-cuts protest in London where I met many Socialist Party members...
26 September 2012
Model resolution for a 24-hour general strike
This [body] welcomes the overwhelming vote at this year's TUC Congress in support of the POA motion. It called for the unions to take "coordinated action where possible with far-reaching campaigns...
19 September 2012
All forces to the point of attack against austerity
Editorial of the Socialist A rage is building up. How can it be any other way? Every aspect of our lives is under threat - and the people attacking us, the pro-big business politicians, the bosses and the right-wing media, are sitting pretty
John McInally
19 September 2012
We can beat Con-Dems' austerity
March on 20 October, then for a 24-hr strike: John McInally, the national vice-president of the PCS union spoke in favour of the resolution at the TUC Congress that called for general strike action against austerity
13 September 2012
Hillsborough - eventually, the truth
The report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel has ripped aside the tangled web of lies and cover-up woven by the South Yorkshire police, the government and the army of lickspittles in the press who denigrated Liverpool and the victims of the man-made catastrophe in 1989 that was Hillsborough, writes Tony Mulhearn
12 September 2012
Build a 24-hour general strike
We can stop this austerity: What a fantastic moment. Chants for a 24-hour general strike rang out along the Brighton seafront, as sun-seeking families lined the route of the National Shop Stewards Network march and applauded, writes Paula Mitchell
11 September 2012
TUC passes general strike motion
Following what was described by one observer as the best debate she had ever witnessed at a TUC congress, 'motion 5', in favour of a general strike was passed, against Con-Dem austerity
10 September 2012
NSSN lobby demands a 24-hour general strike
Given the weather forecast, Brighton was the obvious destination on Sunday 9 September. But for up to 1,000 trade unionists and anti-cuts activists, the appeal wasn’t just a day in the sun.
7 September 2012
Tied vote at TUC General Council on general strike motion
At Thursday’s TUC General Council meeting there was a 16-16 tied vote on whether to support a motion that calls for consideration of a general strike. Join the NSSN lobby of the TUC conference on Sunday!
5 September 2012
On 20 Oct, march together; then strike together to end austerity
"Why did 80,000 people boo Osborne? Because that's the maximum capacity of the Olympic stadium!" Tweets like this reflect the colossal and rising anger
Pic: Paul Mattsson
30 August 2012
Build for a 24-hour general strike!
Across the country millions of people are starting to suffer the consequences of Austerity Britain. Over two and a half million are unemployed, with millions only able to get part time work.
26 March 2011 TUC demonstration against the government's austerity programme, photo Suzanne Beishon
29 August 2012
Lobby the TUC for a 24-hour general strike
Britain's self-appointed 'elite' has declared war on the ordinary people of this country...No sane person sits idly by while everything he or she holds dear is torn apart by the enemy. The time has come to rise up!
Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931
29 August 2012
Leon Trotsky: A revolutionary's life
Book review: The 72nd anniversary of the assassination of the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was commemorated even within Britain's capitalist press...
22 August 2012
Draconian sentences for Pussy Riot protest will backfire on Putin
The two-year prison sentences for 'hooliganism' handed down to three members of Pussy Riot in Russia has triggered a storm of international protests and underlined the dictatorial regime of president Vladimir Putin...
Bob Crow
22 August 2012
Lobby the TUC on 9 September: Demand a 24-hour strike against austerity
What we think: 80% to 85% of the Con-Dem cuts are still to come. But already, 400,000 public sector workers have lost their jobs, tuition fees have trebled and EMA has been abolished.
21 August 2012
Britain: towards a 24 hour general strike
The feel-good Olympics can not disguise the catastrophic position facing British capitalism, or the potential for social explosions inherent in the situation...
London Olympics opening ceremony
8 August 2012
Views on the Olympics and the opening ceremony
The reaction of the right wing to the Olympics opening ceremony says it all. It was attacked in a racist, reactionary, anti-working class article in the Daily Mail (later taken down from the paper's website...
6 August 2012
NSSN lobby of TUC congress, 9th September: "Why I'm going to Brighton"
To fire the imagination of the million workers expected on a monster demo on 20 October, the slogan of the TUC is: "A Future that Works". Is that it?
26 July 2012
Sign petition to support NSSN lobby of TUC
Support the lobby of the TUC on Sunday 9 September organised by the National Shop Stewards Network...
25 July 2012
Spain's austerity government is facing revolt from below
Workers' organisations must build for a 48-hour general strike: Like the wildfires that are ripping across the mountains of Catalonia, 'Spanic' is spreading around the world's financial markets, writes Hannah Sell
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