Stop budget attacks with mass action
Unite demonstration for jobs in Birmingham, photo Paul Mattsson
Budget 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
Young 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
Youth speak for jobs at UCU union rally
Protesting at Iain’s Dickensian Society
National Shop Stewards Network
The 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
Budget
Budget 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…
Fightback to stop the cuts – public meetings
Listing of some Socialist Party anti-cuts meetings
Bloody Sunday
Bloody 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
Workplace news and analysis
PCS 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
Unison election: Over 42,000 votes for socialist candidate
Unison leadership: Lack of anti-cuts strategy
Fighting cuts in Nottingham: Save the WAP day centre
National Shrewsbury 24 Justice Campaign March and Rally
Socialist Party news and analysis
Refugee 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.
Coventry rally against public sector cuts
Stop attacks on services for the vulnerable in Nuneaton
Birmingham: Growing anger against cuts
Socialist Party feature
How 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
Ethnic 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.
