A fightback can stop cuts

Our future under attack

It seems that £30,000 a year can almost guarantee you top grades in your A-levels. This year, students from private schools were more than twice as likely to get the new A* grades as those from comprehensives…

Anti-cuts movement builds momentum in Plymouth

THE POET Shelley helped inspire a 50-strong meeting launching Plymouth’s fight against the cuts. 90-year-old pensioners’ campaigner, Paddy Ryan, quoted Shelley: “Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable…

North Staffs TUC public meeting against cuts

EVEN IN the holiday period, around 100 community campaigners and trade union activists attended a North Staffs TUC (NSTUC) public meeting on 18 August to launch an anti-cuts alliance and start a serious fightback against the Con-Dems’ savage cuts…

Cuts hit poor hardest

Fighting the far right in Bradford

ON SATURDAY 28 August, the racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL) could only muster 700 supporters to their Bradford demonstration for what was meant to be their ‘Big One’…

Labour’s three stooges aid Con-Dem coalition

THREE FORMER Labour cabinet members are now acting as advisers to the Con-Dem coalition. Prime Minister Cameron has appointed Alan Milburn his ‘social mobility tsar’, who is supposed to help break down…

Government cuts hit our benefits

Keep Middle Street centre open

Defend school meals

Slashing public services: do councillors have ‘no choice’?

Campaigns against the Tory/Liberal government’s cuts have wide support. But many councillors say that they are, in principle, opposed to cutting public services but have “no choice” but to implement cuts…

Lobby the TUC conference

Lobby the TUC conference

Sunday 12 September 12 noon

Central Convention Centre, Manchester

Organised by the National Shop Stewards Network

Contact the NSSN for more information and to report what is happening in your area in support of the lobby: [email protected]

Kazakhstan: Human rights activist beaten and arrested

HUMAN RIGHTS campaigner and lawyer Vadim Kuramshina was violently attacked and arrested last week in Kokchetava, northern Kazakhstan…

Worldwide protests against brutal attack on three Russian socialists

Pakistan flood disaster: Workers’ solidarity appeal

General strike movement sweeps South Africa

THE COSATU trade union federation in South Africa has warned the African National Congress (ANC) government to meet 1.3 million public sector workers’ demands for an 8.6% pay increase and a housing allowance of R1,000 a month, writes Weizmann Hamilton of the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa.

Battles ahead on London Underground

On 24 August, reps from transport unions TSSA and RMT met to discuss the first ever joint strike between the two unions on London Underground, writes Reg Johnstone, RMT.

London firefighters ballot for action

Jobs threat at RBS

Coventry mail centre closes

Civil service jobs under the cosh

Last week the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced the lost of almost 400 jobs from the Pension Service and Jobcentres. A PCS Member in the North East writes.