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Real jobs for all!

Governments that try to “guarantee a job to every person are doomed to fail”, according to Tory Chancellor George Osborne. What an indictment of the capitalist system he represents!

The truth about the miners’ strike

From the 1970s on, Tory politicians meticulously and ruthlessly prepared an offensive to try to vanquish the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and ultimately trade unionism

TUSC: No-cuts election challenge grows

Climate change: Socialism and global planning essential

IPCC report: Climate change has arrived, and it is not politely knocking on the door. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a ‘call to action’, hit the headlines

Unplug the ‘Big Six’ profiteers

The massive energy price rises at the end of last year have forced 4.5 million households into fuel poverty, families deciding whether to heat their homes or to eat

Them & Us

France: Government punished in local elections

Far right gains highlight need for strong fighting left opposition: Local elections in France, which took place over two rounds on 23 and 30 March, confirmed the deepening crisis of the ‘socialist’ government of Francois Hollande

A million march for dignity in Madrid

“De Norte a Sur, de Este a Oeste, la lucha sigue, cueste lo que cueste” (From North to South, East to West, the struggle continues no matter what the cost). This chant rang through the streets of Madrid on 22 March

South Africa: It’s your opportunity to make history!

There may be a big struggle to raise the finances for the Workers And Socialist Party (WASP) general election campaign but there was no shortage of enthusiasm at the WASP manifesto launch in South Africa on 29 March

Doncaster strike: Fight Tory ‘don’t Care UK society’!

Doncaster striker Carole Hanson says: ‘We’re all still solid, even though we’re all skint this month. However, of we don’t fight to win, we’ll be skint every month!’

Probation officers walk out

Victory for Carmarthenshire Unison

Carmarthenshire Labour-led local authority has backed off from ending the trade union secondments (TUS) it funds

Unite EC elections start

Ballot papers have gone out to Unite members in elections for the union’s executive council (EC). Ballots have to be returned by 12 noon on 23 April

Workplace news in brief

Orgreave protest: On 29 March around 100 protesters gathered outside the northern office of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in Wakefield

Junk jobs – we’re fightin’ it!

London: Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) called a day of action against zero-hour contracts on 29 March, which was supported by the Fast Food Rights campaign and the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU)

Kent ‘peasants’ storm Rochester

FF success: perspectives, planning and persistence

Socialist Party members and supporters raised over £7,000 in the last few days of the fighting fund campaign, smashing the target with a final total of £26,577

Worcestershire: Is socialism only way of saving NHS?

‘Is socialism the only way of saving the NHS?’, was the theme of a Socialist Party public meeting of 30 people in Kidderminster on 25 March, writes Workers’ struggles and socialism to save the NHS

May Day greetings in the Socialist

London: Quinn Square Rent Strike 1938

The East End battle against high rents and slum conditions The women’s poster demonstration was the first the locals in Bethnal Green in London’s East End knew about their rent strike. Quinn Square was a slum.