Bankers bonus scandal – Fight this profit-mad system

The recent ‘Hesteria’ has been revealing. The Tories, majority funded by the City, went on about ‘fairness’ and bankers’ bonuses but failed to challenge RBS boss Stephen Hester’s £1 million bung…

Trade unionists and socialists prepare for May elections

What is the point of Labour MPs?

Dead end in Davos

Them & Us

Rapidly rising unemployment combined with wage freezes means that the average 25-64 year old American male earns about a quarter less than his 1969 equivalent.

Don’t let the racist EDL divide us

Fight for jobs, homes and services: The racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL) claims its demonstration through the heart of Leicester on Saturday 4 February, is in opposition to “discrimination in the justice system”

Disabled protesters demand scrapping of ‘welfare’ bill

Haringey takes action against academies

Coventry: Re-elect Dave Nellist

NUS: name the day for student walkout

This week there’s been another set of statistics showing that £50,000 worth of debt is enough to make many people rethink plans to embark on a university education

Save Derbyshire youth services!

Only one in six ‘vacancies’ real

Jaime Davies points out in ‘Con-Demned to unemployment’ (Issue 702) that there are only 463,000 job vacancies advertised with Jobcentre Plus for 2.5 million unemployed people

Tough conditions for agency workers

South East Wales youth plan new campaigns

South East Wales Socialist Party held a youth campaign meeting to get all of the young Socialist Party members in the area together to discuss issues and upcoming tasks

EU summit – no capitalist solutions to the spiralling eurozone crisis

As the capitalist politicians arrived in Brussels for the 30 January EU summit they were met with a clear and determined message from the Belgian working class – a magnificent 24 hour general strike – the first in the country for nearly 20 years – in defiance of the summit’s austerity agenda…

Interview: the Tunisian revolution one year on

“Revolution is a process, not a single act”: 14 January marked the first anniversary of the downfall of the hated dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali by the Tunisian revolution

Pensions battle: Unions must campaign for coordinated strike action in March

At January’s TUC Public Service Liaison Group (PSLG) meeting the leadership of Unison and the GMB confirmed their decision to sign up to the government’s heads of agreement on pensions…

London Docklands transport workers win Olympics deal

Unison pensions cowardice

The devil’s in the detail!: Since 10 January Unison’s right-wing lay leadership, and the bureaucracy at whose bidding they act, have been attempting to sell their position on the local government pension scheme (LGPS) around the regions

Remploy workers fight privatisation

Jet tanker drivers continue strike action

Workplace news in brief

As previously reported in the Socialist, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is planning to close all 39 of its local offices and centralise operations at its Swansea headquarters.

Debate: Should socialists support the HS2 rail line?

Developing efficient public transport: The second high speed line (HS2) in Britain (the first being the channel tunnel link from London to Paris) would initially connect London to Birmingham by 2026 with a journey time of 49 minutes, writes Mark Pickersgill, Stevenage Socialist Party.

Are the Greens a real alternative?

Green leader Caroline Lucas MP and her party are attempting to build on the unions’ rift with Labour to encourage trade union support and funding to break from the Labour Party and support them instead

Smacking not the answer

David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, has called for the ‘smacking ban’ to be repealed. He claims his constituents back this, blaming lack of parental control as a factor in last summer’s riots

Obituary: Gwenda Beishon

Over four decades, from the 1970s until her recent death, Gwenda Beishon was a continuous subscriber to the Militant newspaper and then the Socialist