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The Socialist issue 642

14 October 2010

Strike back at pensions robbery

2010 Back issues


The Socialist issue 642

Anti-cuts campaign

spotStrike back at pensions robbery

Former Labour minister Lord Hutton, on a comfortable MP’s pension, has released an interim report on his investigation into public sector pensions…

Unite workers protest, photo by Paul Mattsson

Unite workers protest, photo by Paul Mattsson


spotProtest against the Con-Dem’s comprehensive cuts on 23 October

London, Cardiff, Manchester, Bristol, Portsmouth…

spotTUC must name the date for strike action

Editorial THIS YEAR’S Tory conference provided a foretaste of what this government of millionaires is planning for us in the comprehensive spending review, which will be announced on 20 October…

spotPCS fights to defend jobs and pensions

Socialist Students

spotWhen they say fees will rise… we fight back and organise!

Student tuition fees: what Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students say

Student tuition fees: what Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students say


spotNo to academy schools!

spotSchool students strike in Dover

spotAction against EMA cuts in Huddersfield and Mansfeild

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotCon-Dem attacks will lead to social cleansing

Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi

Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi


spotLabour shadows show: We need a new workers’ party!

WHAT DO the results of the election to Labour’s Shadow Cabinet tell us about the direction, or even likelihood, of Ed Miliband’s party leading a fightback against the coalition cuts?, writes Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist, Chair, Campaign for a New Workers’ Party.

spotChildren – a privilege for the rich?

spotSave Wanstead Flats

Anti-racism

spotCommunity organises to resist EDL thugs

HUNDREDS, EVEN thousands, of local people turned out to defend their community in Leicester when the hooligan English Defence League (EDL) came to stir up racism, writes Steve Score.

English Defence League supporter (centre bottom). The EDL met a massive counter-demonstration in Leicester, photo Paul Mattsson

English Defence League supporter (centre bottom). The EDL met a massive counter-demonstration in Leicester, photo Paul Mattsson


Socialist Party workplace news

spotThe battle is on over DWP pay

Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been given management’s pay offer for this year’s pay increase, writes Katrine Williams, PCS DWP vice president, personal capacity.

PCS DWP civil servants in Leicester during recent strike action, photo Leicester Socialist Party

PCS DWP civil servants in Leicester during recent strike action, photo Leicester Socialist Party


spotFight Passport Office closure

PCS members in a packed mass meeting protest launch campaign to stop the closure of Newport Passport Office, photo Socialist Party Wales

PCS members in a packed mass meeting protest launch campaign to stop the closure of Newport Passport Office, photo Socialist Party Wales


spotGreenwich council threatens mass sackings

spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialism 2010

spotCome to Socialism 2010

The Socialism event on 6-7 November is a must for every trade unionist, socialist and campaigner. It is a brilliant opportunity to discuss socialist ideas in a great atmosphere. There are sessions to interest…

Socialist Party Marxist analysis

spotThe general strike: Important tool of the working class

All across Europe workers and young people face the austerity axe. And all across Europe there is a fight to defend jobs and services against governments who are determined to do the bidding of big business…

100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, photo Paul Mattsson

100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, photo Paul Mattsson


spotWill prices rocket up?

International socialist news

spotStalinism and capitalism – a toxic brew in Hungary

NEARLY 700 million litres of toxic red sludge poured from a ruptured industrial reservoir flooding three villages and polluting rivers in Hungary…

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