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Fightback against austerity
A job that pays a living wage, pleasant and affordable housing, a comfortable retirement, a secure future for our children: none of that is on offer for the majority in Austerity Britain…
NSSN lobby of the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton, photo Socialist Party
Teachers: march together, then strike together against austerity
Martin Powell-Davies, a member of the National Union of Teachers’ (NUT) national executive and secretary of Lewisham NUT, writes on the developing action in schools and how this can be linked to national action
Reasons to join the 20 October demo, reasons to build for a 24-hour strike
Workers in Jobcentres around the country will be trained up in the government’s new sanctions regime over the next few months, ahead of their implementation on 22 October
General strike, the biggest weapon
Model resolution for a 24-hour general strike
This [body] welcomes the overwhelming vote at this year’s TUC Congress in support of the POA motion. It called for the unions to take “coordinated action where possible with far-reaching campaigns…
Socialist Party feature
Labour Party conference: Can Labour give a lead in the fight against austerity?
The Labour Party conference takes place at a crucial time. Working people are crying out for a lead in a mass movement which can force elections and topple the hated Con-Dem government, writes Peter Taaffe
Waltham Forest protest, one of many protests outside Labour-run councils who pass Con-Dem austerity measures. , photo Senan
International socialist news and analysis
Afghanistan war: end this ‘pointless waste of life’
The Afghanistan war has been a “pointless waste of lives and not worth the billions of pounds it has cost since it started eleven years ago” think 78% of the people in a new poll by the Mirror, writes Afghanistan war: end this ‘pointless waste of life’.
Lincoln Socialist Party against war and occupation, photo Lincoln Socialist Party
Spain: March on Madrid kicks off a hot autumn of struggle
South Africa: ‘Lonmin settlement a victory – struggle pays!’
Socialist Party news and analysis
TUSC conference: A step forward for working class political representation
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition conference on 22 September was a forum for real debate about political representation for working class people, writes Paula Mitchell
TUSC on the 28 March 2012 NUT London strike and demonstration , photo by Socialist Party
Murdoch empire: a whole barrel of bad apples
Action needed to save NHS from privatisation
Jeremy Hunt, the new Tory health secretary, has been ridiculed for his belief in homeopathy. But when it comes to the NHS, the Tories are doing exactly the opposite. Privatisation is a cancer eating away at our health service
Socialist Party workplace news
Workers strike as Argos tightens the screws
Unite union members at Argos are taking strike action against the ending of their final salary pension scheme..
Knowsley council fears anti-privatisation campaign
Solidarity with workers sacked from Crossrail
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) working in the transport and environment departments were on strike on 21 September
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
No excuse! Thousands protest against victim blaming on London Slutwalk
“No sexual abuse! No excuse! No domestic abuse! No excuse!” was one of the chants on the lively and colourful Slutwalk London demonstration on Saturday 22 September.
Slutwalk London 22 September 2012, photo Paul Mattsson
There’s a part of me that almost feels sorry for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg – trapped between his own dissatisfied grassroots Lib Dem members on the one hand, and the rabid Tory back-benchers on the other, writes Chaz Lockett
Enthusiastic start to the year for Socialist Students
As students, we are facing one of the toughest periods in living memory, with fresh assaults on higher education announced almost every day
20 Sociaist students activists marched round Sheffield city centre against tuition fees and to restore EMA, joined by NUT rep, photo by Sheffield Socialist Students
Why Hull council should defy the government’s cuts to services
Tameside library closures – “Get used to it” says councillor
Opportunistic speeches at Hull march against NHS cuts
Cellist Alfia Nakipbekova speaks out about Kazakhstan
Alfia, from Kazakhstan, has become widely known as a cellist who plays both classical and innovative new
Opencast mining: “Protect us from Provectus”
Socialist history
Belfast Outdoor Relief Strike 1932
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the heroic Outdoor Relief Strike in Belfast. This battle is an important example of workers’ unity that has vital lessons on how sectarianism can be overcome
Unemployment in the UK in the 1930s, photo Wikimedia Commons.
