Fighting for jobs, services and conditions
Cuts – cartoon by Suz
PCS: All Out to Defend Jobs and Services
Youth fight for jobs
Invest in jobs, education & Training
We don’t want to see a ‘lost generation’: “We should try to work with the masters of globalisation”…”Companies like McDonalds… provide a fantastic service that people value at a price that people can afford.” Students and education workers…
Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party
Cut the working hours, not the jobs!
Portsmouth students and workers unite to fight cuts
Brighton students say: Save our nursery
EMA inadequacy impacts badly on students
International socialist news and analysis
Editorial: Attempts by the bosses and governments across Europe to make workers pay for the economic crisis are being met by a wave of anger and protest…
Greece – millions take part in general strike
Spain: Thousands join mass demonstrations
Mass protests took place in Spain last week against the PSOE government´s attacks on the country´s pension system…
Socialist Party news and analysis
Comment: IMAGINE WORKERS raiding their firm’s safe every week to bet on horses. They stick the money, plus any winnings, back in the safe but keep a large cut for themselves. Now, imagine the workers betting most…
Activists launch socialist challenge
Walsgrave hospital Coventry: Stop the parking charges rip-off
Socialist Party workplace news
Where is the BA cabin crew dispute going?
For the third time in four months hundreds of British Airways cabin crew assembled for a joint branch meeting on 25 February at Kempton Park race course, writes Neil Cafferky.
Smash the bosses’ construction blacklist!
Leeds lecturers win concessions – but cuts remain to be fought
Unison
Unison general secretary election: Nominate Roger Bannister
The outcome of a BBC survey shows that at least 25,000 council jobs are at risk. A spokesperson from the London School of Economics has declared that: “Nothing like this has happened for a generation”…
Roger Bannister, photo Paul Mattsson
Legal ruling exposes hypocrisy of Unison leadership
The Socialist Interview
FBU general secretary speaks to The Socialist
Preparing for more battles over jobs and services: Greg Maughan interviews Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary – another public sector union facing cuts to jobs and services in the coming months, writes How has the FBU changed since you were elected in 2005?.
Matt Wrack, FBU General secretary, speaks at Socialism 2005, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party women
Women will be at the fore in the fightback!
100th anniversary of International Women’s Day: At the turn of the century some feminists celebrated a ‘genderquake’, the idea that women had finally achieved equality, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Sussex Socialist Students.
Unison Local Government strike 16-17 July in London, photo Paul Mattsson
Media
Global media monster News International condemned
RUPERT MURDOCH’S News International Ltd (a UK subsidiary of News Corporation) has been lacerated by a report from a House of Commons select committee into the News of the World’s (NoW) phone hacking activities, writes Philip Stott, International Socialists, (CWI in Scotland) Dundee.
Tommy Sheridan – hounded by News International, photo IS
The hounding of Tommy Sheridan
Savage cuts planned at the Beeb
Football
Supporters should own Pompey, not developers
THE COMPANY controlling Portsmouth Football Club (FC) has now gone into administration. This means that control over the club’s finances has been taken out of the hands of the owner, writes David Maples.
Socialist Party feature
The worldwide thievery of big business
FEW THINGS better display the underlying morality of capitalism than the scale and scope of ‘offshore banking’, ‘off-balance-sheet’ accounting and parasitical speculation – thievery by most people’s definition, writes Steve Appleton.
