Seven Sisters London Underground RMT and TSSA members strike, photo Paul Mattsson
National Shop Stewards Network lobby of the TUC
Editorial: At its conference next week, the TUC will be under pressure to lead the struggle against the government’s proposals to slash the public sector…
Socialist Students
We won’t be a lost generation!
Young people face an uncertain future. The Con-Dem butchers have turned their axe to education in what is set to be the most savage attack on the public sector since the welfare state was established…
Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, photo Paul Mattsson
No to slave labour apprenticeships!
Socialist Party news and analysis
Tony Blair – a journey to Thatcherism
TONY BLAIR’S memoirs show that he really was Thatcher’s heir. He tries to justify New Labour’s capitalist economic policies, ferociously attacking Gordon Brown for daring to “depart a millimetre from…
How interesting to read that Tony Blair admitted in his book that he got something wrong. Could it be his decision to leave in place the Tories’ anti-trade union laws?
Academies will lead to a two-tier education system
Jobs and services are facing axe in Cornwall
Socialist Party youth and students
Far right not welcome in Brighton
Just days after 700 protested in Bradford, the far-right English Defence League (EDL) marched through Brighton, writes Jon Redford.
Socialist Party workplace news
Solid strike on London Underground
The power of organised working class people was demonstrated resoundingly on 7 September. 11,000 London Underground (LU) workers were striking against job cuts, writes Paula Mitchell.
London Underground workers RMT members, on strike , photo Paul Mattsson
London: Unite members to strike against NHS privatisation
New Royal Mail boss sharpens her axe
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Fighting for the health service
The new government’s health policy was put forward in July 2010 in the white paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, writes David Pelsall.
Death and privatisation in the NHS, photo Paul Mattsson
The callous cutting of NHS Direct
Socialism 2010
Against cuts? Come to Socialism 2010
The capitalist leaders at the moment are telling us that cuts are inevitable and there’s nothing that workers can do about it, writes Rob Williams Unite Convenor, Swansea Linamar, and National Shop Stewards Network steering committee member.
Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union RMT, addresses Socialism 2009, photo Rob Emery
International socialist news and analysis
Russia: Motorway construction through Khimkinsky forest halted
ON 7 August, Russian CWI activist, Igor Yasin, and two other CWI members, were brutally attacked by thugs following a peaceful protest in Moscow over the proposed construction of a major new road through Khimkinsky forest, part of Moscow’s green belt, writes Igor Yasin, Moscow.
Global food crisis reveals failure of capitalism
Socialist Party feature
THE OUTGOING Blair/Brown New Labour government won parliamentary support for the modernisation of the Trident system with support from the Tories, writes Ronnie Stevenson, Socialist Party Scotland.
Socialist Party review
Zola’s Germinal: still relevant today
It is 125 years since Emile Zola’s Germinal was first published. Dave Gorton delves into one of the most renowned and important works of French literature…
