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The Socialist issue 653

12 January 2011

Bankers get billions - We get cuts

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The Socialist issue 653

Anti-cuts campaign

spotBankers get billions – We get cuts

Youth Fight for jobs campaigning in Cardiff against the bankers bailouts and bonuses, photo Cardiff YFJ

Youth Fight for jobs campaigning in Cardiff against the bankers bailouts and bonuses, photo Cardiff YFJ


Youth fight for jobs

spotMarch for a future – Join the demonstrations on 29 January

David Cameron has declared he’ll deliver “the most pro-business…agenda ever unleashed by a government”, writes Tracy Edwards, PCS young members’ organiser (personal capacity).

Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, November 2009, photo Dave Carr

Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, November 2009, photo Dave Carr


spotMore attacks on rights for young workers

Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, November 2009, photo Dave Carr

Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, November 2009, photo Dave Carr


spotAxe falls on courses at UWIC

spotStudents at Leeds Trinity re-occupy

Leeds Trinity University College (LTUC) students went back into occupation this week. The campaign in general is designed to oppose all cuts, especially at LTUC where severe funding cuts are taking place writes Andy Smith, Leeds Trinity Socialist Students

International socialist news and analysis

spotTunisia: Wave of protests against repressive regime

CLASHES BETWEEN protesters and police over unemployment, the high cost of living and the repressive regime of president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, are reportedly spreading across Tunisia, with the latest protests in the cities of Regueb, Thala and Kasserine in the country’s southern and central regio…

National Shop Stewards Network

spotRage at inequality fires workers’ action

“We have to let management know we won’t accept this pay freeze anymore,” were the angry words of one striking journalist at the Southampton Echo picket last week, writes Nick Chaffey, Secretary Southampton Shop Stewards Network (SSSN).

NHS cleaners employed by Compass Medirest on a 48 hour strike in Southampton and Buckinghamshire, photo Southampton Socialist Party

NHS cleaners employed by Compass Medirest on a 48 hour strike in Southampton and Buckinghamshire, photo Southampton Socialist Party


spotNSSN National: Anti-Cuts Conference

22 January, 11.30am – 3.30pm. Registration from 10.30am
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG, (near Euston station)
See: www.shopstewards.net

spotNSSN debate: The way forward for the anti-cuts movement

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC congress 2010, photo Suleyman Civi

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC congress 2010, photo Suleyman Civi


spotNational Shop Stewards Network: Strategy and tactics – a dialogue

Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, photo Paul Mattsson

Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, photo Paul Mattsson


spotLabour baroness wants politics kept out of the Forest of Dean

spotFighting Labour’s cuts in Waltham Forest

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotJobs cut while the rich carry on partying

On 6 January nearly 8,000 council workers employed by Greenwich received notices of dismissal. The council wants to sack its entire workforce, with no entitlement to redundancy pay, and offer new contracts…

Greenwich protest against council cuts 29 November 2010 - riot police were called

Greenwich protest against council cuts 29 November 2010 – riot police were called


spotThe plot thickens at News International

spot‘Big Oil’ cuts corners on safety to boost profits

spotTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

spotCouncils ramp up service charges

spotCampaigners tell PM: ‘No to Royal Mail privatisation’

spotPolice moles attempt to discredit protest movements

Socialist Party workplace news

spotUnison rejects NHS pay freeze

Unison’s health service group executive has decided to completely reject the employers’ proposal of a two year pay freeze in return for no compulsory redundancies, Socialist Party members on the Unison health SGE write.

Defend Whittington Hospital Campaign demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson

Defend Whittington Hospital Campaign demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson


spotKirklees council: First round victory in cuts battle

spotDarlington: Newsquest strikes continue to spread

Journalists, members of the NUJ, on strike at Newsquest in Southampton, photo Nick Chaffey

Journalists, members of the NUJ, on strike at Newsquest in Southampton, photo Nick Chaffey


spotRotherham teachers strike

spotWorkplace news in brief

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