Socialist Party news and analysis
Demonstration in Southampton by Unite and Unison against Tory attacks on terms and conditions and cuts in public services, photo by David Smith
Fight the cuts – whoever makes them
Waltham Forest protest against library closures in 2008, photo Bob Severn
THE TORY MP for the Forest of Dean, Mark Harper, was on the ropes last Friday (4 February) when he finally appeared at a public meeting to face his angry constituents, writes Diane Gash, Socialist Party and HOOF.
Hundreds of campaigners against the government’s forests sell-off plans wait to quiz Tory MP in Coleford, photo www.handsoffourforests.org
Campaigners reject maternity unit cuts
Billy Bragg helps raise Exeter Anti-Cuts funds
Institute of Directors, bosses’ organisation, bares its teeth at unions
THE RIGHT-wing bosses’ organisation – the Institute of Directors (IoD) – has called for trade union collective bargaining to be scrapped for teachers and NHS workers…
Solidarity with the Egyptian masses
Uprising in Egypt – Socialist Party public meetings
Socialist Party youth and students
National education shutdown needed
Despite the government railroading its attacks on young people through parliament, the 29 January demonstrations showed that there is still willingness to fight back…
UCU members on strike at London Met university in 2009 , photo Paul Mattsson
PCS young members’ network conference
Yorkshire: organising the student movement
Demonstrating against cuts in Grimsby
Volunteering ‘plaster’ for unemployment
International socialist news and analysis
Egypt: Is revolution derailed?
“Lenin said of revolutions that they demonstrate two things. The first is that the people cannot go on being ruled in the old way. The second is that the rulers cannot go on ruling in the old way” – The Guardian. Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, on the Egyptian revolution.
Revolution invokes Lenin
Economic crisis in Greece: Immigrants made scapegoats
Solidarity messages needed for US prison reform activist
Socialist Party workplace news
Southampton campaigners march in defence of jobs and services
Hugo Pierre speaks to the Southampton protest, Photo Southampton SP
On 1 February it was announced that 2,400 workers at Pfizer’s research and development facility in Sandwich, Kent, will be made redundant after the company’s decision to close the site completely…
Striking against health job cuts
Scottish Unison members oppose leadership’s sell-out
Social care workers on strike in Scotland, photo Duncan Brown
Leicester Unison members rally against all cuts
March against the job losses in Greenwich
Socialist Party review
Review: Devised/directed by David M Lutken and Nick Corley, writes Reviewed by Manny Thain.
Woody Guthrie
Comment
Readers’ comments: AUTISM IS a neurological condition that was first identified in the 1940s. It statistically affects about one in 100 people in the UK alone (although I believe there are more autistics who haven’t been diagnosed), writes Lucy Stokes.
Autism, from the Society for Neuroscience brain briefings May 2006, copyright Society for Neuroscience
