Staff and students unite in protest at Sussex university, photo Socialist Students
Socialist Party editorial
Build united action to stop the cuts
Government departments to prepare for cuts of 40%… civil servants’ redundancy terms to be ripped up…housing benefit to be cut… plans to build new schools and hospitals to be scrapped…
As has been explained in previous issues of The Socialist, this economic crisis was not caused by working class people and they should not pay for it…
Socialist Party feature
Con-Dem budget cuts: Hitting those on benefits hardest
Hitting those on benefits hardest: “Yes it is tough; but it is also fair”. This was how Tory chancellor George Osborne described his emergency budget on 22 June 2010. In fact the plans of this government of millionaires represent an enormous…
How will George Osborne’s budget affect families?
Housing benefit cuts – increasing homelessness
The budget changes to housing benefit will make the mass of working and middle class people far more insecure in their homes, writes The idea that ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’ clearly doesn’t impress George Osborne!.
Cuts to disability benefits will increase misery
In the short time since the Tory/Liberal budget, the full realisation of what these vicious cuts will mean is dawning on disabled and older people and family carers…
Anti-cuts campaign
Fight the savage cuts by Neath/Port Talbot council
LABOUR CONTROLLED Neath/Port Talbot council is threatening to sack its 7,000 strong workforce and re-employ them on worse terms and conditions in a brutal attempt to close a £24 million gap in its budget by 2014, writes Alec Thraves.
Swansea Unison workers protest against cuts and privatisation in Wales, photo Swansea Socialist Party
Hull: Rallying against the austerity budget
‘Godfather’ turning in his grave
Youth fight for jobs
Action needed: On 29 June, the National Union of Students (NUS) held a hastily organised conference to discuss the massive cuts looming in higher education…
Anti-racism
BNP forced to abandon its ‘festival of hate’
THE RACIST British National Party (BNP) has been forced to call off its annual Red, White and Blue ‘festival of hate’ which usually takes place in Codnor, Derbyshire, writes Pete Watson,.
Protest against the BNP’s ‘festival of hate’, photo Jim Reaves
International socialist news and analysis
South Africa: 5,000 sacked miners on strike
Socialist Party councillor (Australia) speaks to strikers: ON SATURDAY 26 June I travelled with two comrades from South Africa’s Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, the Socialist Party’s counterpart in South Africa) to a mass meeting they had called in Rustenburg, about two hours north west of Johannesburg, writes Steve Jolly,.
Workers’ leaders will not be cowed by persecution: Elizabeth Clarke recently made a visit to Kazakhstan. There she met with the leaders of ‘Kazakhstan 2012’, the increasingly well-known movement that unites workers and communities in struggle across the…
Education
Organise against academies now!
Defend state education: For their promoters, one of the selling points of the divisive and part-privatised academy schools programme is ‘raised educational standards’ writes Rob Spurr and Dave Carr.
BA dispute
Limited new ‘final’ offer facing BA cabin crew
Although there are some guarantees on terms and conditions that were not in the last offer, the substantive issues that led to the strike have not been addressed, writes British Airways cabin crew began voting on 6 July on a new ‘final’ offer from the company. Despite the rhetoric of BA management the new offer seems to be similar to the old offer put forward prior to the last round of strikes..
British Airways cabin crew on strike at Heathrow airport, photo Paul Mattsson
Civil Service
PCS will fight new attack on redundancy pay
On 6 July Tory minister Francis Maude announced new legislation to attack civil service workers’ redundancy pay, writes John McInally.
PCS members striking against Labour’s cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
Workplace news
Unison by-election: fighting leadership needed
The public sector union Unison has announced the timetable for national executive (NEC) by-elections, including the local government male seat that was held by Socialist Party member Glenn Kelly…
Unison conference 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
Shrewsbury Pickets march for justice
Lindsey refinery fire death: inquiry needed
Workplace analysis
Unite general secretary election:
support Len McCluskey: The general secretary election in Unite will take place between 25 October and 19 November this year…
Interview with Brian Caton
Interview: Ken Clarke’s prison plans
Genuine reform or further hypocrisy?: On 30 June Ken Clarke, the new justice secretary, made a speech addressing the problems of a soaring prison population…
Socialist Party LGBT
Pride, prejudice, fightback and hypocrisy
PRIDE STARTED 40 years ago as a political demonstration for gay rights. London Pride 2010 on 3 July was a carnival, with politics only at the fringes. The gay establishment claim that lesbian, gay, bisexual…
Socialist Party events
I WENT to my first Socialist Party summer camp last year as a fairly new member. It was fantastic being in such a relaxed environment with everybody on the same political wavelength and with the same goals in mind, writes Katie Simpson, Cardiff East Socialist Party
Socialism 2010 Saturday 6 – Sunday 7 November
Socialist Party reviews
When the financial wizardry lost its magic
Steve Appleton reviews: Whoops! Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, by John Lanchester, published by Allen Lane, 2010, writes £20.
