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The Socialist issue 685

14 September 2011

Hands off our pensions!

2011 Back issues


The Socialist issue 685

Socialist Party features

spotWe need a programme of action to fight back!

Never before has it been more necessary for the trade unions and labour movement to combat the pessimism and hopelessness which pervades the capitalist media. Peter Taaffe outlines a positive, realistic programme against the abyss of mass unemployment and poverty which the capitalist system threatens.

National Shop Stewards Network demonstration and lobby of the TUC 11 September 2011, photo by Paul Mattsson

NSSN demo


spotAusterity policies strangle growth

Pawn shops are booming, pound stores are multiplying. But spending on services and retail (apart from food) has slowed to a standstill. Socialism Today editor Lynn Walsh looks at the effects of Con-Dem cuts on the UK economy.

Socialist Party youth and students

spotPampered politicians plan education massacre… STOP THEM!

“Education is a right not a privilege” chanted students during the mass protests against fees at the end of 2010, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.

Young people march for a future: Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students on the 29 January London demonstration against education cuts, photo Senan

Young people march for a future: Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students on the 29 January London demonstration against education cuts, photo Senan


spotLow pay and the housing crisis

spotYouth must join pensions struggle

spotEMA cuts: doors close on our future

spotCuts hit young people hard in Hastings

Stop attacks on pensions

spotHands off our pensions!

For a one-day public sector strike: Enough is enough; the government’s cuts programme is an unfolding disaster for working people and the middle classes, writes John McInally, national vice-president PCS, personal capacity.

National Shop Stewards Network demonstration to lobby the TUC 11 September 201, photo Paul Mattsson

National Shop Stewards Network demonstration to lobby the TUC 11 September 201, photo Paul Mattsson


spotNHS pensions – Pay more, work longer and get less!

The message that public sector workers are getting from this government is that we are not valued and that our work is not worth paying for, writes an NHS worker.

Socialist Party workplace news

spotBombardier

Derby Socialist Party is continuing to campaign for the nationalisation of Bombardier. We say that the government should take Britain’s last remaining train manufacturer into democratic public ownership…

10,000 marched against job cuts at Bombardier on Saturday 23 July in the biggest demonstration in Derby for decades, backed by the RMT and other trade unions, photo Paul Mattsson

10,000 marched against job cuts at Bombardier on Saturday 23 July in the biggest demonstration in Derby for decades, backed by the RMT and other trade unions, photo Paul Mattsson


spotSupport Wyndeham workers

spotNo to pay cuts in Carmarthenshire

spotWorkplace news in brief

International socialist news and analysis

spotHow can the national rights of Palestinians be achieved?

UN vote on ‘statehood’: Palestinian representatives intend to ask the United Nations this month to recognise Palestine as a state in the Gaza strip and West Bank, writes Judy Beishon.

 Demonstration against the murder by Israeli commandos of civilian aid volunteers on aboard a ship attempting to bring aid to Gaza , photo Senan

Demonstration against the murder by Israeli commandos of civilian aid volunteers on aboard a ship attempting to bring aid to Gaza , photo Senan


Socialist Party news and analysis

spotNSSN calls on TUC to open the floodgates of mass action

700 trade unionists from all over the country assembled to put pressure on the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to take action to defend workers’ living standards. Union leaders like Bob Crow (RMT) and Mark Serwotka (PCS) made fighting speeches.

National Shop Stewards Network demonstration to lobby the TUC 11 September 2011, photo Sujeeth

National Shop Stewards Network demonstration to lobby the TUC 11 September 2011, photo Sujeeth


spotNationalise the banking system!

spotChildcare costs push parents into hardship

spotSave our NHS

spotFast news

Socialist Party review

spotPower and terror

Book review: Matt Dobson reviews Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force, by Noam Chomsky…

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotSave Surrey libraries!

spotBristol: Labour’s short-lived valour

spotHundreds march against Dale Farm evictions

Stop constant evictions: hundreds march against Dale Farm evictions of travellers, 10 September 2011, photo Paul Mattsson

Stop constant evictions: hundreds march against Dale Farm evictions of travellers, 10 September 2011, photo Paul Mattsson


spotMay Day protest case goes to Strasbourg

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