The Socialist 18 May 2011

Strike back at pensions robbery!

Strike back at pensions robbery!

Fight all the cuts - come to the NSSN conference

Battle for the NHS!

Derriford hospital announces huge cuts

Crisis deepens in the eurozone

The Hardest Hit march and rally

Teachers' strike stops job cuts

Iraq war: Labour's lie machine

Pay gap grows ever wider

News in brief

Britain now facing crisis on all fronts

Northern Ireland: The 'no change' elections

UCU at the crossroads on pensions

CWU conference: Support joint union action on 30 June

BA dispute: Mass meeting votes to put latest agreement to membership

Workplace news in brief

Con-Dems: Supporting Youth Enslavement

Yorkshire Youth Fight for Jobs regional conference

Tory cuts hit children and young people

Teachers strike and parents picket at Shorefields

Campaigners put pressure on Lambeth council

The difference a union makes

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Fight all the cuts - come to the NSSN conference

National Shop Stewards Network anti-cuts conference (NSSN), photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)

The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is at the forefront of the battle against the Con-Dem cuts. The NSSN was initiated by the RMT transport union in 2007 so that rank and file trade unionists could organise together across the union movement and ensure that workers in struggle would be supported.

This role was important in 2009, when workers in the private sector fought a series of disputes at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, the Visteon and Linamar car plants and the Vestas wind turbine factory.

Now it's the turn of all workers, their families and communities as the Con-Dems look to make us pay the price for the bankers' crisis. They want to take us back at least 80 years by decimating the NHS, education, public services and the welfare state.

From the beginning, NSSN supporters have played a leading role in setting up local anti-cuts campaigns. To aid the anti-cuts work, in January, at a conference of 600 trade unionists, community campaigners and young people, the NSSN launched its anti-cuts campaign with a majority trade unionist committee.

We say that we must fight ALL the cuts, including those of Labour councils, who shamefully have passed on the Con-Dems' cuts. Now we must fight the implementation of these cuts - library by library and school by school if necessary.