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The Socialist issue 611

10 February 2010

Fight University Cuts

2010 Back issues


spotFight university cuts

Unison general secretary election

spotFighting leadership needed in Unison – Nominate Roger Bannister for general secretary

Whoever wins the general election, members of Britain’s largest public sector union Unison, like all other public service workers, are in for a hard time…

spotGreenwich Unison backs victimised branch secretary

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotPreying on the living and dead

Vampire capitalism: Socialist Party general secretary, Peter Taaffe, comments on an interview with film director Michael Moore by Chris McGreal in the Guardian (30/1/10)…

spotWaltham Forest: Campaigners score a victory

spotFiddling MPs: Jail the whole lot of them!

spotVulnerable lose out on benefits

spotSocialist Women: Fighting for equality through socialism

spotFast news

Socialist Party workplace news

spotCivil service strike ballot: Vote ‘yes’ for action

The ballot organised by the civil service union PCS for industrial action over plans to change the Civil Service Compensation Scheme has begun, writes John McInally, national vice-president PCS, personal capacity.

spotBoycotting the 2010 SATS in schools

spotCoventry youth workers’ strike

spotMetaldyne workers strike

spotStoke: Axiom workers in overtime ban

spotSaving jobs and services in Worcestershire

spotWorkplace news in brief

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

spotHazel Blears must go

Around 80 people packed into a Hazel Must Go campaign meeting in Salford on Thursday 4 February to decide who would stand as a candidate to rival disgraced local Labour party MP and former cabinet minister Hazel Blears in the general election, writes Alex McElroy and Paul Gerrard, Salford Socialist Party.

spotTUSC: Wellingborough socialists make a stand

What started out as a meeting called by Independent Socialists in Wellingborough (ISW) aiming to discuss tactical voting in the general election, ended in the ISW deciding to stand a candidate itself, writes Lee Dunkley, Northampton Socialist Party.

PCS young members

spotPCS young members network conference

Almost one hundred young civil servants gathered in Birmingham to discuss continuing to build the PCS young members’ network in 2010, writes Kyly Wilson.

spotBristol job centre workers fight transfer

Socialist Party feature

spotTrade unions in Britain – are they ready for the coming battles?

Recently, chancellor Alistair Darling said that halving the government’s deficit in four years was ‘non-negotiable’…

International socialist news and analysis

spotNorthern Ireland: An agreement to cement division

ON 5 FEBRUARY the DUP and Sinn Fein agreed a deal on policing, justice and parades. The deal was announced in triumph as a “historic breakthrough” by First Minister Peter Robinson of the DUP and his…

spotSri Lanka President Rajapakse removes his rival, Fonseka

SRI LANKA’S former army chief and main opposition presidential election challenger, Sarath Fonseka, was dragged from his office late at night last Monday…

spotTamil Solidarity -: Successful northern conference

Unison witchhunt

spotTrotskyism on trial

Unison witch-hunt: Employment Tribunal: Trade union activists expect class bias in the courts and employment tribunals. But rarely has a tribunal delivered such a blatantly biased judgment based on class interest. The employment tribunal judge…

War and occupation

spotArmed forces: Release Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton

JOE GLENTON, a Lance-Corporal in the logistics corps, was always described by his superiors as a model soldier, writes Christian Bunke.

spotTrade union rights for service personnel

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