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The Socialist issue 637

9 September 2010

We can stop the Con-Dem cuts

2010 Back issues


The Socialist issue 637

spotWe can stop the Con-Dem cuts

Seven Sisters London Underground RMT and TSSA members strike, photo Paul Mattsson

Seven Sisters London Underground RMT and TSSA members strike, photo Paul Mattsson


spotHealth workers’ victory

spotNational Shop Stewards Network lobby of the TUC

Editorial: At its conference next week, the TUC will be under pressure to lead the struggle against the government’s proposals to slash the public sector…

Socialist Students

spotWe won’t be a lost generation!

Young people face an uncertain future. The Con-Dem butchers have turned their axe to education in what is set to be the most savage attack on the public sector since the welfare state was established…

Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, photo Paul Mattsson

Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, photo Paul Mattsson


spotNo to slave labour apprenticeships!

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotTony Blair – a journey to Thatcherism

TONY BLAIR’S memoirs show that he really was Thatcher’s heir. He tries to justify New Labour’s capitalist economic policies, ferociously attacking Gordon Brown for daring to “depart a millimetre from…

spotBlair admits he was wrong…

How interesting to read that Tony Blair admitted in his book that he got something wrong. Could it be his decision to leave in place the Tories’ anti-trade union laws?

spotAcademies will lead to a two-tier education system

spotJobs and services are facing axe in Cornwall

Socialist Party youth and students

spotFar right not welcome in Brighton

Just days after 700 protested in Bradford, the far-right English Defence League (EDL) marched through Brighton, writes Jon Redford.

spotCon-Dems threaten EMA

Socialist Party workplace news

spotSolid strike on London Underground

The power of organised working class people was demonstrated resoundingly on 7 September. 11,000 London Underground (LU) workers were striking against job cuts, writes Paula Mitchell.

London Underground workers RMT members, on strike , photo Paul Mattsson

London Underground workers RMT members, on strike , photo Paul Mattsson


spotLondon bus workers fight cuts

spotLondon: Unite members to strike against NHS privatisation

spotCorus Redcar – the real story

spotNew Royal Mail boss sharpens her axe

Socialist Party NHS campaign

spotFighting for the health service

The new government’s health policy was put forward in July 2010 in the white paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, writes David Pelsall.

Death and privatisation in the NHS, photo Paul Mattsson

Death and privatisation in the NHS, photo Paul Mattsson


spotThe callous cutting of NHS Direct

Socialism 2010

spotAgainst cuts? Come to Socialism 2010

The capitalist leaders at the moment are telling us that cuts are inevitable and there’s nothing that workers can do about it, writes Rob Williams Unite Convenor, Swansea Linamar, and National Shop Stewards Network steering committee member.

Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union RMT, addresses Socialism 2009, photo Rob Emery

Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union RMT, addresses Socialism 2009, photo Rob Emery


International socialist news and analysis

spotRussia: Motorway construction through Khimkinsky forest halted

ON 7 August, Russian CWI activist, Igor Yasin, and two other CWI members, were brutally attacked by thugs following a peaceful protest in Moscow over the proposed construction of a major new road through Khimkinsky forest, part of Moscow’s green belt, writes Igor Yasin, Moscow.

spotGlobal food crisis reveals failure of capitalism

Socialist Party feature

spotNo to Trident nuclear weapons

THE OUTGOING Blair/Brown New Labour government won parliamentary support for the modernisation of the Trident system with support from the Tories, writes Ronnie Stevenson, Socialist Party Scotland.

Socialist Party review

spotZola’s Germinal: still relevant today

It is 125 years since Emile Zola’s Germinal was first published. Dave Gorton delves into one of the most renowned and important works of French literature…

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