Anti-cuts campaign
We need action against the cuts… and a socialist political alternative
Barnet council workers protest at plans to cut services and run a ‘no frills’ council, photo Suzanne Beishon
Fight the cuts! – demonstrate on 23 October
Stop wholesale sell-off in Suffolk
Children’s homes: Bosses’ ‘Tribalism’ defeated
IN SEPTEMBER the government cancelled the contract for delivering improvement in children’s homes with venture capital backed Tribal Group…
Greenwich, Reading, Hackney, Bristol, Cardiff: Sixty people, mainly local government workers in the Unite union, gathered at Greenwich town hall in Woolwich on Tuesday 21 September to protest at the council’s plan to make £70 million worth of cuts to jobs and services…
Service users defend Ealing health centres
Anti-cuts demonstrations planned so far
Cardiff All-Wales demo 23 October. Assemble Cardiff City Hall at noon. London…
To publicise action in your area email [email protected]…
Socialist Party editorial
No ‘lurch to the left’ for Labour
Editorial from The Socialist, issue 640: Does the victory of Ed Miliband over his elder brother David – a modern Cain and Abel drama in reverse with the younger brother ‘knifing’ the elder – represent the dreaded ‘lurch to the left’ feared by the right-wing press…
National Shop Stewards Network Lobby of TUC congress 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party news and analysis
Death at Kington Court community care centre shows “regime of neglect”
UN fails to meet development goals
Housing bosses’ pay goes through the roof
Unison elections: Socialists stand for a fighting and democratic trade union
Socialist Students
Students: Why we must all protest!
Comprehensive spending review – 20 October: The brutal Con-Dem government’s spending review on 20 October is expected to announce further devastating cuts in jobs and services, writes Becci Heagney, Leicester.
Staff and students unite in protest at Sussex university, photo Socialist Students
Socialist Students: showing an alternative to cuts and fees
Swansea, Leeds, Lincoln, Brunel, Wolverhampton: Socialist Students members and supporters have had a busy start to what promises to be a busy academic year…
Defend students’ democratic rights
Socialist Party feature
“A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water, writes Peter Taaffe.
Barnet council workers protest at plans to cut services and run a ‘no frills’ council, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party workplace news
What’s the point of the unions?
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, addresses National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
South Wales: Fight for car workers’ jobs
Ballot victory against social enterprise
International socialist news and analysis
Right-wing government re-elected in Sweden
THE RECENT Swedish elections were historic in many ways. In a polarised vote, with an increased turnout, the right-wing ‘Alliance’ was again the biggest bloc while losing its overall majority. The racist…
Is Ireland’s economy going bust?
THE IRISH government has imposed a series of savage austerity measures to reduce the country’s large budget deficit…
Socialist Party feature
Global AIDS crisis: Profits punish poor
The Millenium Development Goals summit recently brought together the leaders of 140 countries to review the progress made in the decade since the eight development goals were set…
