Anti-cuts campaign
Public services: Not For Sale!
200 trade unionists, community campaigners and service users marched in Greenwich borough, south London, against the local council’s brutal cuts package, photo Lorraine Dardis
International socialist news and analysis
Region-wide revolution of the Arab people
“Ten days that shook the world” (Guardian). From Tunisia, to Egypt, to Bahrain, to Libya, to Yemen, to Djibouti and Morocco, the revolution that was sparked by the self-immolation of the desperate and heroic street seller in Tunisia has erupted throughout the Middle East. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist newspaper.
Protests in Libya
Socialist Party youth and students
The government has an entire generation in its sights. It is determined to price working class young people out of education. It has voted to triple tuition fees to £9,000 a year, savage funding to universities…
No to cuts! Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, photo by Suzanne Beishon
Youth unemployment: No return to the 1930s!
Socialist Party news and analysis
Welfare Bill – Tories launch assault on the vulnerable
JANE IS in her 40s. Arthritis, heart disease, constant pain and a host of other problems led to her early retirement. She lives on benefits – primarily Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for her care and…
Workers and their families marched to Trafalgar Square on the trade union backed Save the Welfare State and Public Services demo, called by the National Pensioners Convention , photo Paul Mattsson
Lewisham by-election: back the socialist alternative
UNDER THE banner “Don’t vote for cuts, vote for Ian Page” the Socialist Party launched its campaign in the Bellingham ward council by-election on 24 March in Lewisham, south east London…
Manchester council’s special pleading petition
As youth unemployment neared the one million mark and as the official inflation rate hit 4% (while many workers are effectively suffering pay cuts), champagne corks were popping in the City bars as investment bankers celebrated their share of Barclays Group’s £3.4 billion bonus pot…
Socialist Party feature
Opposing all cuts: Thousands march across England and Wales
What we think: Cuts-making councillors must be challenged:
Barclays Bank made £11.6 billion in profits in 2009 and paid just 1% of that in UK corporation tax…
Demonstration reports from Bristol, Hackney, Hillingdon, Shrewsbury, Walthamstow, Lewisham and Rhondda Cynon Taff
Lewisham protest against cuts, photo by Chris Flood
Housing crisis
Housing – no trust in private investors
THE NATIONAL conference of Labour councillors will discuss housing policy on 5 March. This is at a time when council services are being decimated, benefits slashed and policy changes introduced that would…
Education
Victory for Huddersfield anti-academy campaign
On Tuesday 15 February Kirklees council’s cabinet was forced to abandon their preferred ambition to establish an academy at Fartown High School in Huddersfield by a highly successful campaign by local parents. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist newspaper.
Huddersfield Youth Fight for Jobs march, photo Huddersfield YFFJ
Scotland: defending teachers’ jobs
Balham: NUT strike against academies
Socialist Party workplace news
Disabled factory workers at Remploy, the government funded manufacturing company, are considering taking strike action to defend their jobs. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist newspaper.
Remploy workers rally against closure threat in 2007, photo Bob Severn
