Brutal bosses? Time to fight back!
Thursday 16 September saw one of the most formidable demonstrations in London for some time. 2,500 uniformed firefighters marched with Fire Brigades Union (FBU) flags and placards, whistles, vuvuzelas…
2,500 uniformed firefighters marched with Fire Brigades Union (FBU) flags and placards to protest outside the London Fire Authority (LFA), photo Suzanne Beishon
Birmingham: Solidarity with council workers
Sometimes the bosses hesitate before attacking workers. Sometimes they proceed slowly. And sometimes they rush to strike a devastating blow, Birmingham Socialist Party members write.
Birmingham Council workers on strike, 24 April 2008, photo S. O Neill
Socialist Party youth and students
Stop the higher education lock out!
“If we have a highly educated and idle population, we may possibly anticipate more serious social conflict. People must be educated once more to know their place.”…
Cambridge Socialist Students protest, photo Cambridge Socialist Party
The Student Socialist:: Issue 8 £1.50
Read about last year’s anti-cuts campaigns and how to take them forwards, what the English Defence League (EDL) is and how to defeat it, international reports and what a socialist education system would look like.
Socialist Student magazine issue 8 2010
International socialist news and analysis
For a 24-hour all-Europe general strike
Strikes and protests spread across Europe: This is an extract from a statement of the Committee for a Workers International, in preparation for a European day of action on 29 September…
Public sector workers march in Madrid
Spain: class struggle the biggest show in town
Kashmir: An eyewitness to oppression in the valley
“A PARADISE turned into hell”. That’s how the people who live there describe Indian occupied Kashmir. Monday 13 September saw 18 people, mainly young men, mown down by some of the 700,000 soldiers in…
‘Death of democracy’ in Sri Lanka
Socialism 2010
Socialism 2010 – a weekend of discussion and debate
Hosted by the Socialist Party – Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 November – Rallies: Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, NW1 2BJ
Socialism 2010
Socialist Party news and analysis
Countering the Con-Dem government’s offensive
Propaganda attacks on public sector workers: THE DAILY Mail reports with glee that Tory prime minister David Cameron wants to get rid of public sector workers’ ‘gold plated pensions’, a Leicestershire, local government worker writes.
NSSN lobby of TUC, Billy Hayes, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, CWU, firmly laid the blame for the economic crisis on the bankers –
Stroud says no to BNP media centre
Bosses want workers’ pensions axed
Trade unionists challenge Lib-Dems
CNWP extended steering committee meeting
Socialist Party workplace news and analysis
The recent sale by Corus of the steel plant on Teesside to the Thai company SSI is welcome news but in reality the situation should never have got to this stage, writes A socialist steel worker.
Corus steel workers on the Unite jobs demonstration in Birmingham, photo Paul Mattsson
Ex-Jarvis workers face more attacks
Tyneside Safety Glass: Stop the decline to the minimum wage!
Shop steward Mark Robertson, spoke to Elaine Brunskill about the strike on 20 September at Tyneside Safety Glass, the biggest industrial glass manufacturer in the north of England, with around 150 workers…
Unite members on strike on the picket line at Tyneside safety Glass, photo Elaine Brunskill
The scale of the proposed coalition government public sector cuts is becoming more apparent. The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) on 20 October will destroy the credibility of the Cameron/Clegg mantra, writes John McInally, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) vice-president, personal capacity
PCS protest outside Ministry of Justice , photo Paul Mattsson
Hastings demo against attacks on union officials
Hastings March and Rally against TU victimisation, photo Samuel Buckley
Organising to save jobs and services
Determined, widespread union action needed
Editorial: The Guardian writer Michael White, commenting on this year’s Trades Union Congress, quoted Warren Buffett, the American billionaire, saying: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”…
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference 2010 , photo Paul Mattsson
Why London firefighters oppose ‘reforms’
On Thursday 16 September, 2,500 firefighters marched through central London to a rally outside the London fire authority headquarters in Southwark. Sarah Sachs-Eldridge spoke to the Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack.
2,500 uniformed firefighters marched with Fire Brigades Union (FBU) flags and placards to protest outside the London Fire Authority (LFA), , photo Suzanne Beishon
23 October march against cuts: RMT calls London demo
Socialist Party feature
The beauty industry: out of control?
Today the beauty industry, which refers to toiletries, cosmetics, dieting products and plastic surgery, is worth billions of pounds, writes Becci Heagney.
I saw this report the other day: “Former cab driver kissed his 100-year-old mother on the cheek and said “sorry” after stabbing her to death”, a Socialist Party member writes.
Socialist Party campaigns
Socialist Pary councillor Dave Neillist joins Stoke Aldermoor residents to lobby Coventry council to save their local council neighbourhood management one stop service office., photo Coventry Socialist Party
