Unison general secretary election
Fighting leadership needed in Unison – Nominate Roger Bannister for general secretary
Whoever wins the general election, members of Britain’s largest public sector union Unison, like all other public service workers, are in for a hard time…
Greenwich Unison backs victimised branch secretary
Socialist Party news and analysis
Preying on the living and dead
Vampire capitalism: Socialist Party general secretary, Peter Taaffe, comments on an interview with film director Michael Moore by Chris McGreal in the Guardian (30/1/10)…
Waltham Forest: Campaigners score a victory
Fiddling MPs: Jail the whole lot of them!
Vulnerable lose out on benefits
Socialist Women: Fighting for equality through socialism
Socialist Party workplace news
Civil service strike ballot: Vote ‘yes’ for action
The ballot organised by the civil service union PCS for industrial action over plans to change the Civil Service Compensation Scheme has begun, writes John McInally, national vice-president PCS, personal capacity.
Boycotting the 2010 SATS in schools
Coventry youth workers’ strike
Stoke: Axiom workers in overtime ban
Saving jobs and services in Worcestershire
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Around 80 people packed into a Hazel Must Go campaign meeting in Salford on Thursday 4 February to decide who would stand as a candidate to rival disgraced local Labour party MP and former cabinet minister Hazel Blears in the general election, writes Alex McElroy and Paul Gerrard, Salford Socialist Party.
TUSC: Wellingborough socialists make a stand
What started out as a meeting called by Independent Socialists in Wellingborough (ISW) aiming to discuss tactical voting in the general election, ended in the ISW deciding to stand a candidate itself, writes Lee Dunkley, Northampton Socialist Party.
PCS young members
PCS young members network conference
Almost one hundred young civil servants gathered in Birmingham to discuss continuing to build the PCS young members’ network in 2010, writes Kyly Wilson.
Bristol job centre workers fight transfer
Socialist Party feature
Trade unions in Britain – are they ready for the coming battles?
Recently, chancellor Alistair Darling said that halving the government’s deficit in four years was ‘non-negotiable’…
International socialist news and analysis
Northern Ireland: An agreement to cement division
ON 5 FEBRUARY the DUP and Sinn Fein agreed a deal on policing, justice and parades. The deal was announced in triumph as a “historic breakthrough” by First Minister Peter Robinson of the DUP and his…
Sri Lanka President Rajapakse removes his rival, Fonseka
SRI LANKA’S former army chief and main opposition presidential election challenger, Sarath Fonseka, was dragged from his office late at night last Monday…
Tamil Solidarity -: Successful northern conference
Unison witchhunt
Unison witch-hunt: Employment Tribunal: Trade union activists expect class bias in the courts and employment tribunals. But rarely has a tribunal delivered such a blatantly biased judgment based on class interest. The employment tribunal judge…
War and occupation
Armed forces: Release Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton
JOE GLENTON, a Lance-Corporal in the logistics corps, was always described by his superiors as a model soldier, writes Christian Bunke.
