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1 June 2011
Lewisham teachers - Action threat spells victory
Two small but significant victories for Lewisham NUT, south London, have shown how an organised response - and the threat of union action - can achieve success in fighting the threat of cuts and redundancies, writes Martin Powell-Davies, NUT national executive member, personal capacity.
Youth against Racism in Europe protest against the BNP in 1993, photo by The Socialist
1 June 2011
18 years since Stephen Lawrence murder
We still need to fight racism... and cuts: Two men are now to stand trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who had ambitions to become an architect but was killed in a vicious racist attack in 1993, writes Onay Kasab.
25 May 2011
Firefighters discuss strategy to fight cuts
Seventy delegates to the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) conference attended the official fringe meeting about how to fight the cuts, writes Hugh Caffrey, North West Socialist Party.
25 May 2011
Why Liverpool needs a needs budget
On 14 May 2011 Derek Hatton, deputy leader of the 47 Liverpool councillors in their battle against the Tory government's cuts from 1983 to 1987, pronounced in the Liverpool Echo newspaper that refusing to implement the cuts would be political suicide for present-day Labour leader Joe Anderson...
24 May 2011
Cuts in hospital parking charges as result of Coventry campaign
Bosses at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospitals NHS Trust have announced cuts in some of the charges for car parking at Walsgrave hospital
NUT on TUC demo
18 May 2011
Strike back at pensions robbery!
National Union of Teachers members across England and Wales are balloting for strike action over pensions. So are members of the smaller ATL teaching union. We must win those ballots and defeat the government's plans to make every teacher pay more for a worse pension, writes Martin Powell-Davies, NUT national executive member.
March to save the NHS, 17 May 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
18 May 2011
Britain now facing crisis on all fronts
If splits at the top denote opposition from below, then the character of the divisions between the alleged 'partners' in the Con-Dem government means that a massive social and political revolt is brewing in Britain
Part of the PCS contingent on the massive 26 March TUC demonstration, photo Senan
11 May 2011
PCS conference: prepare for united action on 30 June
John McInally, national vice-president of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), explains, in a personal capacity, some of the main issues facing delegates to this year's conference...
Campaigning for TUSC in Swansea, photo by Socialist Party Wales
11 May 2011
TUSC shows alternative to Con-Dem and Labour cuts
Roundup: 174 candidates, standing in 50 councils, contested the English local elections under the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) umbrella, polling over 25,000 votes...
Charterhouse residents in Coventry win first stage of their fight to defend public land, photo Coventry Socialist Party
4 May 2011
Coventry residents' victory over Academy land snatch
Campaigners and socialists in Coventry won a concession from the council in the battle to halt a private land-grab...
Tony Mulhearn speaking at a public meeting organised by Liverpool Trades Council on Thursday 10 February, to debate the way forward against the cuts, photo Harry Smith
4 May 2011
Review: The monarchy - reserve weapon of the ruling class?
BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze programme recently dealt with the monarchy against a background of the circus surrounding the wedding of Wills and Kate...
TUSC against cuts
27 April 2011
Fight the cuts: Vote for a socialist alternative
On Thursday 5 May millions of people get the chance to pass judgement on a year of the Con-Dem government. Socialist candidates will be offering an alternative to the diet of cuts, writes Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor, Coventry and TUSC steering committee.
27 April 2011
Tony Mulhearn on 'The Moral Maze', radio 4, 8pm Wednesday 27 April
Socialist Party member Tony Mulhearn from the Liverpool 47 group of councillors who led a battle against the Tory government in the 1980s will be part of the panel on the programme The Moral Maze tonight, on the issue 'Meritocracy and Monarchy'...
20 April 2011
The twin terminator toffs, Cameron and Clegg, are determined to slash public services, privatise whatever they can and wipe out even more jobs, writes Lenny Shail, Socialist Alternative candidate, Coventry.
TUC demontration 26 March , photo Paul Mattsson
13 April 2011
Coordinated strike action to defeat the cuts
"...every activist must be a leader in their own workplace and community...": The big question arising from the tremendous TUC march last month is where does the movement go from here...
30 March 2011
Cllr Dave Nellist condemns housing benefit reductions
New housing benefit claims from Friday 1st April will only be eligible for a reduced rate; existing tenants will see their claims reduce at some point up to nine months after the anniversary of their claim date...
25 March 2011
Socialist receives 12% of the vote in Bellingham, Lewisham
Socialist Party member and former councillor Ian Page received 12% of the vote in yesterday's byelection in the Bellingham ward in Lewisham, south London. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist.
Dave Nellist at the TUSC Launch rally, London March 2010, photo Alison Hill
23 March 2011
On 5 May millions of voters will pass judgement on the Con-Dem coalition in elections to local councils, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, writes Councillor Dave Nellist, Acting chair, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.
Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair
23 March 2011
Liverpool city council's historic victory over the Thatcher government
When organised mass action defeated the Tories: "Two unlovely black eyes" declared the Daily Mail. It was condemning Thatcher's environment secretary Patrick Jenkin for his retreat over extra funding for Liverpool. It wrote: "The Trotskyites and...
18 March 2011
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