THIS CABINET of millionaires plans to sound the death knell for the NHS. Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley said his proposals would bring ‘power to the people’ with control of most NHS spending in…
Death and privatisation in the NHS, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party youth and students
Youth and students: organise to fight for a future
Proposed cuts to university budgets over the next two years amount to £1 billion. £340 million is being removed from college budgets. The UCU lecturers’ union believes this will mean 34,000 job losses…
Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Last week, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) held its annual Summer School, in Belgium. Report by Kevin Parslow from CWI Summer School, Belgium on the CWI website (link opens in another window)
Anti-cuts campaign
As Cameron and Clegg’s government moves to dismantle public services, they could unleash a whirlwind of opposition as local public services anti-cuts alliances are formed and move into action, writes Brian Debus joint chair, Hackney alliance.
Education workers must teach Tories a lesson
TRADE UNIONS organising education workers, including NUT, NASUWT and UNISON, lobbied parliament on 19 July against the disgraceful cancelling of building and repair work to be carried out under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme and the undemocratic fast-tracking of the Con-Dems’, writes Greg Maughan.
Socialist Party workplace news
BT and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have agreed a three year pay deal which will be recommended to the union’s members in a ballot, writes Clive Walder, Birmingham, Black Country and Worcester branch CWU, personal capacity.
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) announcement of an ‘estate rationalisation consultation,’ threatening the closure of 103 magistrates’ courts and 54 county courts, commencing on 23 June until 15 September, comes as no surprise to MOJ workers, writes Kevin Greenway, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) national executive (NEC), personal capacity..
Wales: No to fire service cuts
“It shows how far they’ll go in making these cuts-they’re willing to put our lives at risk. All the rich mates of these politicians have to do is whistle and they get handed billions of pounds of our…
Strike action wins at Tube Lines
Tube Lines is one of the maintenance companies on London Underground. The recent strikes and subsequent victory for the workforce were, on the face of it, about pay, job security and changes to working…
Socialist Party workplace analysis
PCS: a strategy to stop the cuts
The PCS civil servants union’s national executive committee (NEC) has met to discuss how to respond to the Tory/Liberal coalition government’s cuts and privatisation programme, writes John McInally national vice-president Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), personal capacity.
PCS members striking against Labour’s cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
After weeks of vacillation the TUC has finally agreed NOT to call a national demo against the cuts this year, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party industrial organiser.
Unite the struggle to defend pensions
As if the threats to our jobs and wages weren’t enough, the bosses are also baying to cut our pensions, writes Glenn Kelly.
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Con-Dems propose denationalisation of the NHS
Using the cover of ‘saving’ money by reducing ‘bureaucracy’, the Con-Dem government is effectively proposing the wholesale privatisation of the National Health Service…
Marching to defend the NHS
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Harder work, longer hours… All part and parcel?
“ENOUGH IS enough” by Donna Summer and Barbara Striesand may not be the greatest song ever but the title illustrates the mindset of many a modern day worker, writes Martyn Yates.
A testing ‘pudding’ for councillors
Keep probation services public
IN HIS interview (The Socialist 632), Brian Caton rightly highlights the hypocrisy of Ken Clarke’s plans to cut the prison population by increasing community sentences, writes Barry Conway.
