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The Socialist issue 673

1 June 2011

Strike - to defend jobs and pensions

2011 Back issues


The Socialist issue 673

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotRage against bankers

UK Uncut protest against banks and to save the NHS in Cardiff, photo Socialist Party Wales

UK Uncut protest against banks and to save the NHS in Cardiff, photo Socialist Party Wales


spotFifa scandal

spotGlencore – Profiting from global hunger

spotNew attacks on women’s sexual and reproductive rights

Picket of Tory MP Ann Widdecombe's anti-abortion meeting 6 February 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Picket of Tory MP Ann Widdecombe’s anti-abortion meeting 6 February 2008, photo Paul Mattsson


spotDisabled protester – “inadvertently struck with a police baton”

Disabled activists are outraged by the Metropolitan Police’s directorate of professional standards decision to reject a complaint by Jody McIntyre after he was batoned and deliberately pulled out of his wheelchair twice during a demonstration against Con-Dem tuition fees rises last December

spotShoesmith sacking – social work under growing pressure

spotGil Scott-Heron

Musician, poet and writer Gil Scott-Heron died on 27 May. He was well respected for his contribution to the arts and his influential role in radical politics in America in the 1970s

spotNews in brief

International socialist news and analysis

spotEgypt and Tunisia: Revolutions at the crossroads

Starting in Tunisia, a wave of revolutions and protests swept the Middle East and North Africa followed Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act of self-immolation against poverty and oppression…

spotGreece: unite the struggles and bring down the government

National Shop Stewards Network

spotStrike – to defend jobs and pensions

The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference will meet on Saturday 11 June in Camden, London, to help take forward the battle against all cuts and attacks on workers’ pay, pensions and conditions being made by the government, councils and big businesses

Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation, photo Paul Mattsson

Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation, photo Paul Mattsson


Socialist Party NHS campaigning

spotGovernment plans for the NHS: Privatisation and world class profits!

A review of The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player: Some on the political left believe that, despite all its betrayals, Labour still retains more of a commitment to the NHS than the Tories, writes Roger Davey, Unison health service group executive, personal capacity.

Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation - protest by Royal College of Nurses (RCN) in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation – protest by Royal College of Nurses (RCN) in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson


spot“Frontline first” a dangerous tactic – unity is the key

The Conservatives have pledged to protect “frontline” NHS services and cut back on bureaucracy. In reality, this is another broken promise. They have no intention of saving even frontline staff.

spotCardiff NHS protest against Topshop tax dodger

Topshop in Cardiff city centre was occupied on Saturday 28 May in protest at cuts to the NHS taking place while billionaire business people like Topshop’s owner Sir Phillip Green avoid paying tax

UK Uncut protest against banks and to save the NHS in Cardiff, photo Socialist Party Wales

Cardiff protest, photo Socialist Party Wales


spotDemonstration against closure of day centre in Llandeilo

Photo Socialist Party Wales

Photo Socialist Party Wales


Socialist Party workplace news

spotSouthampton – council workers’ strike spreads

Southampton refuse workers finished their first strike action against cuts to pay, jobs and services on 27 May, writes Nick Chaffey.

Southampton council workers lobby their council, photo Nick Chaffey

Southampton council workers lobby their council, photo Nick Chaffey


spotSaltend construction workers’ struggle ends

spotTUC disability conference

Disabled people are in the front line of the government’s attacks on the welfare state. The government has made a critical error

spotLewisham teachers – Action threat spells victory

spotNewcastle East Coast rail call centre – Save jobs!

spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist history

spot18 years since Stephen Lawrence murder

We still need to fight racism… and cuts: Two men are now to stand trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who had ambitions to become an architect but was killed in a vicious racist attack in 1993, writes Onay Kasab.

Youth against Racism in Europe protest against the BNP in 1993, photo by The Socialist

Youth against Racism in Europe protest against the BNP in 1993, photo by The Socialist


Youth fight for jobs and education

spotCoventry action against academies grows

School students and teachers protest against academies at Tile Hill Wood school in Coventry, photo Coventry Socialist Party

School students and teachers protest against academies at Tile Hill Wood school in Coventry, photo Coventry Socialist Party


spotYorkshire meetings make Jarrow plans

Socialist Party feature

spotLib Dems – a party rooted in capitalism

Veneer of social reformism stripped away by Coalition attacks on the working class: Despite Liberal Democratic leader Nick Clegg’s hopes, anger at his party and at Lib Dem cabinet ministers has grown massively since the 2010 general election, writes Jim Thomson.

Sheffield protest against the Liberal Democrats - Unison campaign for jobs and services, photo Sheffield Socialist Party

Sheffield protest against the Liberal Democrats – Unison campaign for jobs and services, photo Sheffield Socialist Party


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