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The Socialist issue 660

3 March 2011

Stop the cuts

2011 Back issues


The Socialist issue 660

Anti-cuts campaign

spotStop the cuts

Protest as forty Sure Start centres across Manchester face closure and privatisation as the city council carries out the government spending cuts, photo Manchester Socialist Party

Protest as forty Sure Start centres across Manchester face closure and privatisation as the city council carries out the government spending cuts, photo Manchester Socialist Party


spotMarching on the Con-Dem conferences in Wales

spotFighting the cuts: Thousands protest, lobby and occupy

spotLewisham election: There is an alternative!

spotDetermination to beat the cuts

What we think: David Cameron’s announcement that private companies and charities will be able to bid to run schools, hospitals and council services was a further declaration of no-holds-barred war on the public sector…

International socialist news

spotFantastic results in Irish election: Socialists and lefts gain five seats

Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly was elected as a TD for the first time in Dublin North with 7,513 first preference votes or 15.2% of the vote, and Joe Higgins, a TD from 1997 to 2007 and currently the Irish Socialist Party’s MEP, was returned to the Dáil (parliament) representing Dublin West, gaining 8,084 votes (19%).

17 MEPs and Irish Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins outside the department of finance in dublin, photo Socialist Party Ireland

17 MEPs and Irish Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins outside the department of finance in dublin, photo Socialist Party Ireland


spotElections see collapse of Fianna Fail, the traditional establishment party

Joe Higgins and Clare Daly

Joe Higgins and Clare Daly


Socialist Party news and analysis

spotCoalition steps up assault on NHS

RECENTLY, THE anti-cuts website False Economy published its findings from NHS Trusts which showed that well over 50,000 health workers’ jobs will be axed…

On the 'Save the NHS' march, 3 November 2007 , photo Paul Mattsson

On the ‘Save the NHS’ march, 3 November 2007 , photo Paul Mattsson


spotWestminster: Save our children’s services

spotWho ‘agrees with Nick’ now?

A SIX-foot high security fence. A special unit of 1,000 police. Late night court sittings. Sounds like the West Bank? No, welcome to the Lib Dems’ spring conference in Sheffield on 11-13 March! Alistair Tice, Sheffield Socialist Party, writes.

spotNews in brief

Socialist Party workplace news

spotLargest protest yet against Wisconsin Governor’s anti-union bill

USA: Saturday, 26 February saw the largest demonstrations yet in Madison, Wisconsin. This was the twelfth consecutive day of protest against Republican Gov. Walker’s bill to effectively eliminate collective bargaining for public sector workers. An edited version of this report was published in the Socialist.

Wisconsin workers protest

Wisconsin workers protest


spotUnison witch-hunt: Reinstate the Four!

spotEnd the blacklist

spotWorkplace news in brief

Youth fight for jobs

spotJarrow to London: March for jobs

Join the march! Youth Fight for Jobs is organising a march in the footsteps of the Jarrow crusaders, to demand decent jobs and the right to education for all.

Youth Fight for Jobs march

Youth Fight for Jobs march


spotCWU youth conference ‘ready and willing to take action’

Socialist Party women

spotInternational Women’s Day 2011: Women and the fightback

Build a mass movement against cuts and for genuine equality for women: International Women’s Day comes at a time of women’s struggles against exploitation and harassment in Asia and Latin America, strikes and demonstrations against cuts in Europe and of course mass movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya and elsewhere…

Keep the NHS public! On the 'Save the NHS' march, 3 November 2007 , photo Paul Mattsson

Keep the NHS public! On the ‘Save the NHS’ march, 3 November 2007 , photo Paul Mattsson


Socialist Party congress 2011

spotSocialist Party 2011 congress – a party growing in strength

The 2011 Socialist Party congress took place on 26-28 February amid the tumultuous changes taking place in Britain and the world. This 300-strong meeting heard from very new delegates and those with decades of party membership.

International socialist news and analysis

spotLibya: A fight to the finish

THE UPRISING against Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi has left at least 1,000 dead and led to thousands fleeing the fighting, writes Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI).

spotTunisia: Revolution and counter-revolution on the streets

Marxist analysis: history

spotLiverpool 1983-87: the council that fought Thatcher

THE LABOUR council leaders proposing the cuts budget in Liverpool council can feel a spectre haunting them…

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