Fighting public sector cuts
The trickle of cuts and sackings in the public sector has turned into a flood and the mood in my workplace has become one of frustration, worry and anger, writes a Waltham Forest Unison member.
Photo by Paul Mattsson
March to save the NHS, 17 May 201, photo Paul Mattsson
Housing crisis wrecks people’s lives
The National Housing Federation (NHF) has warned the government about the “chronic under-supply of homes”…
A warning from the FE sector – hands off our education!
Socialist Party editorial
The government has resorted to the traditional Tory stance of the mailed fist in the aftermath of the riots. If it can get away with it, it will add to the panoply of anti-democratic, semi-dictatorial measures already in place.
Hackney and Tottenham demonstration after the August riots, photo by Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party news and analysis
Libya: No to foreign military intervention – Libyan workers, youth and poor must act independently of imperialism
After six long months of bloody, protracted struggle the overthrow of the dictatorial Gaddafi regime was greeted with rejoicing by large numbers of Libyans, although by no means all. Robert Bechert, CWI, reports.
‘Murdochgate’ places Cameron under spotlight
Welcome to David Cameron’s latest wheeze to save ‘broken Britain’ – the Social Impact Bond. It’s got a lot in common with all Desperate Dave’s other failed remedies…
Socialist Party youth and students
We won’t be a lost generation – fight for jobs and education
March for jobs: “Jobless figures show the real risk of creating a lost generation,” read a headline in the Evening Standard on 17 August
We won’t be a lost generation
Socialist Party workplace news
Plymouth Unison – Battle to reverse de-recognition – Solidarity needed!
By Rob Rooney, Plymouth UNISON shop steward (personal capacity) and Socialist Party member…
31st August – further day of protest by construction workers
Manchester
Tyne and Wear: Churchill Metro workers begin fightback
South Yorkshire Newspapers strike now in seventh week
Youth workers strike across Oxfordshire
Part time workers and the great job con
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Fight for jobs, homes and services – not racism: The racist and divisive English Defence League (EDL) planned to march through Tower Hamlets on 3 September, write Naomi Byron and Hugo Pierre, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party.
6,500 Swansea children in poverty
Newcastle-under-Lyme Socialist Party is now up and running!
Socialist Party review
Book review: Starting with today’s global economic crisis, Eagleton comments: “You can tell the capitalist system is in trouble when people start taking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to be as natural as the air we breathe…
Karl Marx
