Defend jobs and services – Fight for a workers’ alternative – Vote TUSC
- No cuts in public services and jobs. For fully funded, publicly owned and democratically run public services.
- No to mass unemployment. For investment in socially useful job creation programmes, such as house building, youth facilities and other services.
- Stop all privatisation and take privatised services back in-house…
General Election 6 May: A Socialist Challenge
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is a coalition for the millions, not the millionaires. Contact TUSC to help build its election campaigns or invite TUSC candidates to speak at your union branch or workplace. Click here for more about TUSC…
Socialist Party editorial
Mobilise to defend the right to strike
Editorial: Network Rail signallers and maintenance engineers in the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers’ union (RMT) had democratically agreed and planned an effective strike to take place during the four days after the Easter weekend, in defence of jobs, conditions and safety standards…
Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT, speaking to the press, photo Paul Mattsson
London Underground workers balloting
Socialist Party election campaign
Stand up for the millions, not the millionaires!
ARE YOU suffering from this recession? If you’re a low-paid worker, the answer is probably yes. If you’re a fat-cat business executive, the answer is almost certainly no!, writes Roger Shrives.
Reject the parties of cuts and privatisation
Socialist Campaign launched in Coventry
Making an impact in Huddersfield
Hazel Must Go! opposes cuts to Salford NHS
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Socialist Party campaigns
Fighting the onslaught on public services: So much for New Labour’s attachment to education and “no cuts” to the NHS. In the north west, private sector employment has been hit by the recession, in many cases even harder than the national average…
NHS demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson
March to defend the welfare state
March to defend the welfare state
Saturday 10 April
Assemble 12 noon
Temple Place, Embankment
Rally 2pm Trafalgar Square
Supported by the National Pensioners’ Convention and many national trade unions
Tories reveal yet more anti-gay bias
‘Free schools’ or free-for-all?
Socialist Party workplace news
NUT conference again calls for action on workload
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference, which took place in Liverpool over the Easter weekend, showed that the conditions teachers now face are similar to those of workers across the public sector where pay and conditions are being eaten away, writes Jane James.
Merlin school teachers on their picket line in March 2008, photo Martin Powell-Davies
Ex-Visteon workers continue fight for pensions
Socialist Students
Mobilise students and workers to defeat cuts and tuition fees
NUS conference: THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) conference will take place on 13-15 April in Gateshead. At a time when students face huge cuts in universities and the threat of higher fees it could be expected that…
International socialist news and analysis
Kazakhstan: “change the politicians – or they will change you!”
The economic crisis has hit Kazakhstan harder and faster than most other parts of the world, but this has been met by massive struggles of the workers and poor…
‘Kazakhstan 2012 conference’ in opposition to Nazabayev regime
Mass protests and strikes continue to shake Algeria
Tekel workers brutally attacked by police
Comment
The real lessons of the poll tax
Readers’ comment: The centre page article about the massive anti-poll tax demonstration of 1990 by Steve Glennon (issue 617) was excellent, mainly because as chief steward, Steve had a very good overview of events, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist Party councillor, Coventry.
