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The Socialist issue 674

8 June 2011

We are fighting back!

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The Socialist issue 674

Socialist Party editorial

spotEconomic crisis in ‘them and us’ Britain

Wages fall: Office for National Statistics 2010 survey of hours and earnings

Wages fall: Office for National Statistics 2010 survey of hours and earnings


Anti-cuts action

spotCuts in jobs and services: We are fighting back!

Workers across the country are facing cuts. In Birmingham, not only are 7,000 council jobs under threat but the Con-Dem council wants to offshore the IT department to super-exploit workers in India…

Half-million strong TUC demo, central London, 26 March 2011, against the government's cuts , photo by Paul Mattsson

Half-million strong TUC demo, central London, 26 March 2011, against the government’s cuts , photo by Paul Mattsson


spotBirmingham: city of a thousand cuts

Birmingham council workers strike, April 2008, included Unison, GMB, NUT and PCS workers, photo S O'Neill

Birmingham council workers strike, April 2008, included Unison, GMB, NUT and PCS workers, photo S O’Neill


spotHuman rights service staff defend jobs

Socialist Party workplace news

spotCWU conference – unanimous call for 24-hour general strike

At the Communications Workers Union (CWU) conference at the end of May the scale of the attacks on postal and telecoms workers was put alongside the wider government attacks…

Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, addresses the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi

Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, addresses the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi


spotStrike action against pensions attack at Sheffield university

University staff strike in Sheffield to save pensions, photo Yorkshire Socialist Party

University staff strike in Sheffield to save pensions, photo Yorkshire Socialist Party


spotMood for action among Unison members in Waltham Forest

spotSaltend dispute: lessons for future struggles

The heroic struggle for nearly three months by engineering construction workers locked out from the BP Saltend bio-ethanol plant, near Hull, has ended, writes Alistair Tice.

Scaffolders and electricians, employed by contractors for Vivergo in Teeside, protest at British Sugar. They voted by about 90% to walk out again in support of the locked out BP/Vivergo Redhall workers at Saltend, Hull, photo  Socialist Party

Scaffolders and electricians, employed by contractors for Vivergo in Teeside, protest at British Sugar. They voted by about 90% to walk out again in support of the locked out BP/Vivergo Redhall workers at Saltend, Hull, photo Socialist Party


Socialist Party feature

spotFighting the anti-strike legislation

The Con-Dems’ attacks: The anti-trade union laws are important weapons in the bosses’ armoury. Business secretary Vince Cable has threatened this week to make the laws even tougher, in the light of coordinated strike action…

RMT and TSSA members strike against cuts on the London Underground, photo by Paul Mattsson

RMT and TSSA members strike against cuts on the London Underground, photo by Paul Mattsson


Socialist Party women

spot‘Slutwalk’ protests

“Yes means yes! No means no! Whatever we wear, wherever we go!” was the chant as women and men took to the streets of Newcastle on 4 June in a lively ‘slutwalk’ protest…

Slutwalk protests: fighting back against sexism and discrimination in Newcastle, photo by E Brunskill

Slutwalk protests: fighting back against sexism and discrimination in Newcastle, photo by E Brunskill


spotSylvia Pankhurst: Everything is possible

Film review: World write, an ‘education charity committed to global equality’, has produced a new documentary based on the work of the tireless, though unfortunately neglected in Britain, human rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), writes Indianna Purcell.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst protesting against British policy in India, at Trafalgar Square, 1932


International socialist news and analysis

spot‘Butcher of Bosnia’ faces trial

But western powers also have blood on their hands: Bosnian Serb ex-General Ratko Mladic is now detained by the ‘International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’, facing charges of genocide

spotTamil Solidarity: important resolution agreed at the European Parliament

Young people fighting back

spotProtests grow as young people say: ‘We want a future!’

“We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers!” say Spanish protesters. Their “real democracy” movement expresses genuine aspirations for a society in which people have control over…

Protests grow as young people say 'We want a future!'


Socialist Party news and analysis

spotSouthern Cross – Social care on the brink

Southern Cross Healthcare is on the brink of collapse. This company provides residential care to 31,000 people and has 44,000 employees

Southern Cross Healthcare's private residential home care in crisis, photo B Severn

Southern Cross Healthcare’s private residential home care in crisis, photo B Severn


spotVulnerable patients abused at privately run Bristol hospital

spotEnd the ‘insane’ pursuit of oil profit

In parts of the USA you can set fire to your tap water. Now an enterprising company seems to want to bring the practice to Britain, writes Pete Mason.

spotFight Welsh universities’ fees hike

spotNHS: Lansley must resign!

spotNews in brief

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