Anti-cuts campaign
Hard Times – but not for the 1%
Defend pensions, fight the cuts in jobs and pay: As the clouds of recession grow darker, practically every section of society feels the grim effects. Apart from one group – there are few signs of recession for the super-rich! writes Roger Shrives.
On the London demonstration during the 30 June public sector pensions strike, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party editorial
What we think: Labour lords voted against the introduction of the benefit cap which threatens 67,000 families with poverty and homelessness. Yet Liam Byrne, shadow Work and Pensions secretary, made it abundantly clear Labour supports the cap.
Unions like Unite have donated millions to Labour but Labour promises nothing in return to union members, photo Paul Mattsson
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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition election conference
Socialist Party news and analysis
Public sector pensions: ‘Coalition of the willing’ gathering strength
In the immediate aftermath of the TUC-led retreat over pensions, the ‘coalition of the willing’, those unions still determined to fight on, have needed time to regroup, writes Martin Powell-Davies, NUT executive, personal capacity.
30 November 2011 public sector strike, photo Paul Mattsson
Financial vultures kill Peacocks
Fight the Tories’ Welfare Reform Bill
Victory against Dorries’ abstinence education bill
Keep the racist EDL out of Leicester
The ‘English Defence League’ (EDL) is threatening to visit Leicester on Saturday 4 February. The last time they came, in October 2010, they attacked shoppers and smashed city centre shops.
What a banker: Cameron’s rhetoric about clamping down on bankers’ bonuses is becoming more and more farcical. RBS chief executive, Stephen Hester, looks set to receive a bonus of up to £1.6 million.
Education
Haringey parents say: No to academies!
Primary school parents in Haringey, north London, are in the front line of the battle against the Con-Dems’ destruction of our education, writes Paul Gerrard, National Union of Teachers.
Chestnut Grove School in Balham, Wandsworth, south London
NUS calls national student walkout
Socialist Party feature
Balfour Beatty re-ballot: Vote to strike again
The next two weeks are absolutely vital in the construction electricians’ struggle against the employers’ imposition of the Besna contract, writes Rob Williams, National Shop Stewards Network chair.
‘All power to the Sparks’ – Electrician construction workers: protest at Cannon Street, London, photo by Paul Mattsson
Sweetheart stitch-ups in the electrical industry: A spark’s history of the Joint Industry Board
Electricians are currently fighting a 35% pay cut and the deskilling of their trade, being imposed by seven companies using the new “Besna” contracts, writes Eddy Current.
Exposed – the dirty world of the construction blacklist
International socialist news and analysis
Egypt – A year of revolution and counter-revolution
The 2011 revolutionary movements of young people, workers and the most downtrodden swept through north Africa and the Middle East and inspired social movements across the world…
Egyptian revolution: Lenin said of revolutions that they demonstrate two things. The first is that the people cannot go on being ruled in the old way. The second is that the rulers cannot go on ruling in the old way (Guardian Editorial, 4 February 2011).
Socialist Party workplace news
Stepping up the action to defend pensions at Unilever
Workers at multinational company Unilever are making a stand to defend pensions. Following a strike of 2,500 workers last month, from 17 January thousands of Unite, Usdaw and GMB members at Unilever are taking strike action…
Unilever strikersat Ewloe, north Wales, 18 January 2012, photo by Stillshooter
Defend Len Hockey: Outrageous attack on Whipps Cross hospital workers
Shock and outrage by porters, domestics and switchboard staff at Whipps Cross hospital east London, greeted the news of the threat by Initial Facilities to discipline Unison joint branch secretary Len Hockey, a Unison member writes.
Pontefract hospital: Army withdrawn – now kick out PFI!
Vine in Leeds provides specialist education provision for young adults with severe and complex learning difficulties, a Unison steward writes.
Llanelli: Save Prince Philip’s A&E
Stop the Salford day centre closures
Kirklees parents say ‘save our children’s centres!’
Greenwich Unite members oppose cuts, privatisation and racism