Support grows for cabin crew: “We’ve been forced into going on strike because the terms and conditions have changed on board the aircraft, writes Neil Cafferky.
British Airways cabin crew strikers on the picket line , photo Paul Mattsson
Message of support for striking BA workers from Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins:
I am writing ahead of your scheduled strike to express my solidarity, as well as the solidarity of my party the Socialist Party and our sister party the Socialist Party of England and Wales, for your campaign to defend your pay and conditions in British Airways…
Striking British Airways cabin crew pickets speak to The Socialist
It’s been really heartening to get together like this with all your colleagues. The support has been great, horns are going all the time. The fire brigade beeped us. I believe the public support is there…
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Support trade union and socialist alternative: Workers reject main parties
BA CABIN crew, civil servants, railway workers… As the general election looms, trade unionists are voting for, and taking, action to defend their rights, conditions and pay against the onslaught from…
PCS demonstration through central London during two day strike, photo Paul Mattsson
Trade unionist and Socialist Coalition
Salford: The growth of ‘Hazel Must Go!’
Woolwich and Greenwich: For a workers’ MP on a worker’s wage
Stoke Central: Fighting for the millions not the millionaires
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;…
Parliamentary Sleaze
More parliamentary sleaze: “I’M A bit like a cab for hire,” said former Blairite government minister Stephen Byers to an undercover reporter who was posing as a company lobbyist, writes Dave Carr.
Hewitt’s big business alliance
FIVE THOUSAND pounds seems to be the favourite figure of Stephen Byers, who for the past five years has commanded this fee for regular speaking appearances and newspaper articles…
Anti-racism
Far-right EDL outnumbered in Bolton, police try to even the odds!
When the far-right English Defence League (EDL) brought their racist bandwagon to Bolton in Greater Manchester on Saturday 20 March they were significantly outnumbered by anti-EDL protesters, writes Socialist Party members, Greater Manchester.
EDL attend anti-racist meeting
Nottingham anti-EDL anti-BNP conference
Socialist Students
Sussex: Students gain a victory – but fight must go on!
Cuts to higher education announced: Students fight back
Marxist analysis: history
March 1990 anti-poll tax demonstration
The riot – what really happened: In 1989, one million Scots were not paying the poll tax. The All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was also planning organised opposition south of the border. On 1 April 1990, 35 million people would get…
Anti-Poll Tax demonstration March 1990
International socialist news and analysis
Massive rejection of Sarkozy’s policies presages a ‘third round on the streets’
France: Regional elections: LITTLE MORE than 24 hours after the second round of regional elections in France, strike action began on the railways, ushering in a day of action and protests in 80 cities across the country, writes Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI).
Workers and youth protest in Paris, France in May 2003, photo Paul Mattsson
Obama’s neutered health bill limps through
Socialist Party news and analysis
Nottingham council targets the vulnerable
COMMUNITY GROUPS across Nottingham have been expressing their anger at the impact of council budget cuts on services, particularly those for vulnerable adults, writes Jean Thorpe, Nottingham East Socialist Party.
Dickens is back: Implications of poverty revealed in London
Barking council: Late developers
THE LABOUR-run council in the east London borough of Barking and Dagenham has – after more than 25 years – commissioned the building of 63 new council properties for rent…
Battling against school academies in Hastings
Socialist Party workplace news
HP workers take further action
Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members working for Hewlett Packard (HP) have announced a further four days of strike action in support of demands over pay, job security and collective bargaining rights, writes Ian Fitzpatrick.
