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Model motion from the NSSN

TUC - name the day for a 24-hour general strike

This branch notes that last year's TUC agreed to explore the practicalities of a general strike. However some union leaderships have obstructed any attempt at planning it.

The impact of austerity has continued to mount with the destruction of public services, a general decline in living standards and increasing numbers driven into poverty.

Faced with pay attacks some groups of workers have no alternative but to fight and our branch will continue to support any group of workers who ballot for action.

It is vital to link together the struggles to fight pay cuts and austerity; the need for a 24-hour general strike has never been greater.

This branch agrees to support the lobby of the TUC in Bournemouth on 8 September, initiated by the National Shop Stewards Network at its conference on 29 June, calling for the TUC to name the day for a 24-hour general strike.

In this issue

Socialist Party news and analysis

Tories - cuts, Lib Dems - cuts, Labour - cuts

National Shop Stewards Network seventh annual conference

RMT reaffirms support for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

What the other half get paid

St Petersburg Pride rally attacked

Cameron and Blair's support for Kazakhstan regime blasted

Them & Us

Socialist Party feature

65th anniversary of the NHS - How workers won the National Health Service

International socialist news and analysis

Mass street protests as Egypt is swept by revolution and counter-revolution

Socialist Party workplace news

Teachers strike in North West

Rochdale 'Future Directions' strike solid

Model motion from the NSSN

Workplace News in brief

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

'Sick Of Your Boss?' week of action 8-13 July

Fighting back against hated bedroom tax

Letter to student left groups to discuss joint call for a national demo

Impressive national youth organisers meeting

Leeds: Building support for workers in South Africa

The Year of the Paper - boosting the sales of the Socialist

Fighting Fund target smashed!

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General strike:

Nigeria protests shake regime

Members of Democratic Socialist Movement in Nigeria (a sister organisation of the Socialist Party in England/Wales) on the streets in Abuja during the current protests

Thailand: Youth rising against hated junta

100 years since the foundation of the Communist Party of Great Britain

Birmingham North Socialist Party: The General Strike and workers' power

TUC:

Obituary - Jon Elvin

Capitalism discriminates against us - Disabled people fighting for our rights

Lessons of the 2011 pensions strike: when workers showed their power

Lobbying for a lead from the TUC

Strike:

Norwich City Council workers vote for strike action over broken promises on pay and conditions

Ealing parking wardens strike against Serco over absence policy

Thurrock refuse workers strike escalates

Austerity:

Can the 'Preston model' beat the cuts?

For a fighting, democratic, member-led union to stop the austerity attacks

NSSN:

NSSN meeting: NHS workers fighting back

National Shop Stewards Network:

Goodlord strikers fight fire and rehire as part of day of action