Mad Axe Woman Margaret Thatcher. Cartoon by Alan Hardman
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We have reached 71% of our quarterly fighting fund target with only eight days to go! The deadline is 9 April – we can still hit the target, but we need to pull out all the stops for the last week…
Stop the cuts, build a socialist alternative
Editorial: Last week the Financial Times angrily dismissed the “absurd belief” of the 75% of the population who do not support cuts in public services…
PCS strike action
PCS: Striking against government attacks
Following the tremendous civil service two-day strike on 8 and 9 March, PCS members once again demonstrated their anger at the government’s attempt to rip up their contracts under the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, writes John McInally, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) national vice-president, personal capacity.
PCS workers on strike and protesting outside the Welsh Assembly, photo Cardiff Socialist Party
PCS budget day strike: Support grows across country
Transport strikes
BA cabin crew strike: ‘We shall not be moved’
AS THE second round of strikes by British Airways (BA) cabin crew comes to a conclusion no-one within a ten mile radius of Heathrow could possibly be unaware of what is happening, writes Neil Cafferky.
British Airways cabin crew on the picket line, photo Paul Mattsson
Fight the decimation of London tube jobs
Network Rail dispute: RMT signalworker speaks to The Socialist
NUT conference
NUT conference: fight cuts and excessive workload
The annual conference of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) usually hits the headlines over the Easter weekend, writes Martin Powell-Davies, secretary Lewisham NUT.
Socialist elected to NUT executive
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Standing against cuts and privatisation
TUSC launch rally in London: The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has been set up to stand candidates in the coming general and local elections – expected on 6 May – who are against the pro-big business agenda of the main political parties…
TUSC Launch rally, London March 2010, photo Alison Hill
Socialist Party news and analysis
Yorkshire on the campaign trail
Jackie Grunsell, TUSC candidate, GP and councillor, speaks at a Save Huddersfield NHS demonstration, photo Huddersfield SP
Developing a strategy to defeat the far-right
Waltham Forest: on march against redundancies
Cameron shows Tories still anti-gay
Council cuts: Grim Reaper moving to Surrey
Outdoing Thatcher: FOR THOSE who continue to believe that Labour is the “lesser evil” to vote for in May’s general election then Alistair Darling’s post-budget comment should have them holding their heads in their hands in disbelief…
International socialist news and analysis
Terror returns to Moscow For workers’ unity against terror, repression, racism and capitalism
THIRTY NINE people died and over 70 were badly injured when two bombs exploded on the Moscow metro during the morning rush hour on Monday 29 March, writes Igor Yasin and Rob Jones, CWI Russia.
Eurozone crisis: Hanging together or hanging separately
THE WORST capitalist crisis since the 1930s has led to increasing crises, turbulence and change in the world, writes Danny Byrne.
Youth
Future Jobs scam: attacks on young unemployed
The Future Jobs Scheme is the government’s new initiative aimed at getting young people back into work. But it appears to be more about driving the young unemployed off benefits, writes Vincent Leonard.
Southampton University protest
May Day march in Hull: Rebuilding traditions of struggle
Socialist Party review
When We Were Miners marks the 25th anniversary of the ending of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the greatest movement of workers in Britain since the 1926 general strike…
