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The Socialist issue 630

23 June 2010

No to Budget’s pay and benefit cuts

2010 Back issues


spotStop budget attacks with mass action

Unite demonstration for jobs in Birmingham, photo Paul Mattsson

Unite demonstration for jobs in Birmingham, photo Paul Mattsson


spotBudget cuts hitting the poorest hardest

Editorial: The new government hasn’t stopped cutting during its first seven weeks in power. First came £6.2 billion of cuts, followed by more, suddenly-announced cuts of £12.5 billion just a few days before the…

Youth fight for jobs

spotYoung people: fight for your future!

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that unemployment has risen by 23,000 since April, writes Mark Nicholson.

Jobs and Homes Not Racism - Youth Fight For Jobs banner on anti-EDL demonstration in Tower Hamlets, London, photo East London Socialist Party

Jobs and Homes Not Racism – Youth Fight For Jobs banner on anti-EDL demonstration in Tower Hamlets, London, photo East London Socialist Party


spotYouth speak for jobs at UCU union rally

spotAnti-EDL protest

spotProtesting at Iain’s Dickensian Society

National Shop Stewards Network

spotThe role of the NSSN in the battle to defend public sector jobs and services

National Shop Stewards Network: The CBI is calling on the government to introduce even more anti trade union laws. The bosses’ union is demanding that in a strike ballot, 40% of all those in a workplace who are entitled to vote should…

National Shop Stewards Network conference 2009, photo Suzanne Beishon

National Shop Stewards Network conference 2009, photo Suzanne Beishon


Budget

spotBudget Day: workers’ responses

‘We will fight the bloodbath budget’: AS A council workers’ representative I sat awaiting our fate from part one of the Con-Dem government’s bloodbath budget…

spotFightback to stop the cuts – public meetings

Listing of some Socialist Party anti-cuts meetings

Bloody Sunday

spotBloody Sunday: Innocent protesters murdered by the British army in 1972

THE PUBLICATION of the Bloody Sunday inquiry report, known as the Saville inquiry, has brought to light, once again, the brutal lengths the British capitalist state is prepared to go in defence of its interests, writes Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party, Belfast.

Bloody Sunday Mural in Derry, Northern Ireland, photo Jérôme Sautret

Bloody Sunday Mural in Derry, Northern Ireland, photo Jérôme Sautret


Workplace news and analysis

spotPCS union rejects ‘inevitable’ cuts

The Tory/Liberal coalition plans to make working people pay for the crisis created by their friends in the banking industry and big business, by launching an unprecedented assault on the public sector, writes John McInally, national vice-president PCS, personal capacity.

PCS workers on strike and protesting outside the Welsh Assembly, photo Cardiff Socialist Party

PCS workers on strike and protesting outside the Welsh Assembly, photo Cardiff Socialist Party


spotUnison election: Over 42,000 votes for socialist candidate

spotUnison leadership: Lack of anti-cuts strategy

spotFighting cuts in Nottingham: Save the WAP day centre

spotWorkplace news in brief

spotNational Shrewsbury 24 Justice Campaign March and Rally

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotRefugee and Migrant Justice: Save this vital service!

Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ) has 11 offices nationally providing legal advice and representation to those seeking asylum in the UK, writes Eric Segal, Unite rep, RMJ.

spotAfghan war

spotCoventry rally against public sector cuts

spotStop attacks on services for the vulnerable in Nuneaton

spotBirmingham: Growing anger against cuts

spotSave South Leeds Pool

spotWhy BP should be nationalised

Socialist Party feature

spotHow deep is Britain’s media crisis?

Feature The Independent and Independent on Sunday were sold in March to Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev for just £1, a tycoon who similarly bought London’s Evening Standard for the same price in 2009…

International socialist news and analysis

spotEthnic conflict explodes in Kyrgyzstan

BARELY TWO months have passed since the April revolutionary events in Kyrgyzstan led to the overthrow of president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and the emergence of a ‘provisional government’ led by Roza Otunbayeva, writes Rob Jones, Moscow.

spotDonate to aid Greek socialists

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