NHS demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson
Private ‘vultures’ to run NHS hospital
PRIVATE ‘VULTURE’ companies are licking their lips at the prospect of taking over and running a NHS hospital for the first time…
How to stop cuts and defend public services
Demo opposes £29m Notts county cuts
Youth fight for jobs
Young people deserve a future: Join the Manchester march for jobs on 13 March
“Hundreds queue for 56 jobs at Selfridges”, reported the Manchester Evening News before Christmas, when 600 job-seekers waited for hours in a queue stretching two blocks for a handful of temporary posts, writes Poppy Hamilton, Manchester YFJ.
Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party
Youth Fight for Jobs Demonstrations
Details of demos in Barking, East London, Manchester, Yorkshire (Rotherham, Bradford and Hull); Gig in Newcastle
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
RMT branch supports challenge to Denham
A meeting of the Rail Maritime and Transport workers’ union (RMT) local branch held in Eastleigh near Southampton was attended by a candidate for TUSC, Tim Cutter, who will be standing in Southampton Itchen in the general election, writes Kevin Hayes.
Support the TUSC election challenge
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition General Election launch rally
Thursday 25 March, 7.30 pm
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ
Speakers include: Bob Crow, Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary; Brian Caton, Prison Officers Association general secretary;
Chris Baugh, Public and Commercial Services union assistant general secretary; Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor; Michael Lavalette, Socialist Workers Party councillor
Socialist Party news and analysis
British Airways cabin crew v management: Round two
THE UNITE union announced on Monday that British Airways (BA) cabin crew voted overwhelmingly for strike action, writes Neil Cafferky.
Anger on Teesside over Corus closure
ID cards – an expensive threat to civil liberties
Comment
Comment: HAS DAVID Cameron swapped his top hat for a cloth cap by calling for public sector workers to set up their own co-operatives?, writes Nancy Taaffe.
Unison witch-hunt
Nominate Roger Bannister: Unison’s leadership battle
Roger Bannister, who is seeking nominations to stand in the Unison general secretary election, commented on the latest round of job cuts announced by councils across the country…
Swansea Unison workers protest against cuts and privatisation in Wales, photo Swansea Socialist Party
Workplace news and analysis
South Wales: Demo against council cuts
Approximately 300 people attended a demonstration and rally in Port Talbot, South Wales on 20 February, writes A Welsh Unison member.
Staythorpe: the fight for workplace safety
Port workers battle bosses… and high court
Leeds university: Support lecturers striking to save jobs
Fighting leadership needed for UCU
CWU women vote for political review
International socialist news and analysis
CWI Latin America school: A continent on the brink
Members and supporters of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in Latin America met for a very enthusiastic and successful political education school in Brazil between 3 and 7 February…
CWI Latin America school, photo CWI
Iraq: All eyes on the oil prize
Socialist Party news and analysis
Campaigning rights victory: But questions remain on new Waltham Forest policy
Anti-racism
How can the racist BNP be defeated?
UAF conference shows debate needed: Thousands of pounds of trade union members’ money is given to campaigns such as Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Hope Not Hate every year to help combat the rise of far-right, racist groups like the British National Party (BNP), writes A GMB member.
Scottish Defence League defeated: Working class political alternative urgently needed
