Defend Child Benefits
The Tory and Lib-Dem coalition government has struck at the very heart of the welfare state. The Conservatives’ conference has issued a battle cry that will send shivers down the spines of working class working class people.
Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party, writes.
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Students
Students will this week find out what future Lord Browne has in store for them. The multi-millionaire Baron of Madingley (the beneficiary of an Oxbridge education himself) has for almost a year been heading an ‘independent’ review into higher education funding and student finance.
Socialist Students in Exeter did a debt-o-meter on the Campaign to Defeat Fees day of action, photo Jim THomsom
Campaigning Socialist Students win support
YFJ and PCS unite against cuts in Leeds
Socialist Party editorial
National Shop Stewards Network and the struggle against Con-Dem attacks
As the day nears – 20 October – when the details of the Con-Dem government’s next attacks on the working class are revealed, so also does discussion within the labour movement intensify on how best to resist them…
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
National conference called against cuts in jobs and services
Anti-cuts campaign
No excuses for not fighting cuts
IN THE mid-1980s Liverpool Labour council, under the political influence of the Militant (forerunner of the Socialist Party) and the pressure of a mass working class movement, successfully led a campaign to secure extra resources for the city’s urban renewal programme from a hostile Tory government…
Socialist-led Liverpool city council’s struggle in 1983-87 led to mass demonstrations and thousands of new council houses built, photo Dave Sinclair
Thousands tell Tories: ‘No cuts’
Lobby of Tory Party conference, photo I Dalton
Bristol MPs fail to answer young workers’ anger at PCS debate
Meetings and protests against the cuts
Labour councillor’s contempt for care centre users
Protests on October 23 to fight the government’s spending review axe
London Assemble 11am, RMT HQ, 39 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD. Cardiff, Manchester, Bristol …
Socialist Party workplace news
Boris’s bluster doesn’t impress: On 3 and 4 October members of transport unions RMT and TSSA working for London Underground, went on strike to defend jobs. Socialist Party members report from the picket lines.
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
Time to strengthen RMT’s fighting leadership
Health and Safety
Warning: this government could seriously damage your safety
Reader’s comment: Lord David Young’s report on reforming health and safety laws is due to be released as The Socialist goes to press…
Europe: fighting the cuts
Spain: workers demonstrate their strength
Ten million took part in a general strike in Spain 29 September 2010 that shook Spanish capitalism , photo Sarah Wrack
Ireland: a socialist alternative to the crisis
On the same day that the Irish government announced a further rescue package of €35 billion for Anglo Irish Bank, finance minister, Brian Lenihan, declared that the projected cuts of €3 billion in the December budget will have to be increased substantially…
Portuguese workers win the promise of a general strike
Tens of thousands of Portuguese workers, from both public and private sectors, demonstrated on the streets of the main cities of Lisbon and Porto – 50,000 people in the capital, and 20,000 in Porto, Socialismo Revolucionário, (CWI in Portugal) reporters write.
Internationalism against austerity: 100,000 demonstrate in Belgium
HUNDREDS OF activists from across the British trade union movement travelled to Brussels to march against the Europe-wide cuts agenda, writes Nicholas Parker.
100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, part of a European-wide day of action, called by the European Trade Union Confederation on 29 September 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialism 2010
Why you should come to Socialism 2010
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Ireland, explains why Socialism 2010 is an important event for all who oppose the brutal austerity cuts…
Joe Higgins, the Irish Socialist Party’s MEP, speaking at central SYRIZA rally in Athens, Greece
Socialism 2010 – a weekend of discussion and debate
Hosted by the Socialist Party
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 November
Rally speakers include:
– Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Ireland
– Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary
– Cindy Sheehan, US anti-war activist
– Andros Payiatsos, general secretary, CWI Greece
– Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
International socialist analysis
Chávez wins majority but right-wing gains ground
ON 26 September Venezuela elected a new National Assembly (parliament). The elections, which coincided with elections to the Latin American parliament, took place in a deeply polarised political environment…
Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, on a visit to Britain, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party review
Review: It is always a surprise when either Hollywood or Britain’s film industry makes a sympathetic movie about workers who go on strike…
Anti-racism
Nuneaton: community must organise against racism
Anti-EDL campaigners in Nuneaton, photo Bob Smith
Leicester: action needed against EDL
The English Defence League (EDL) is coming to Leicester on 9 October to attempt to stir up division in one of the most culturally and racially diverse cities in Britain, writes Steve Score, Leicester Socialist Party.
