Anti-cuts campaign
Strike 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
Protest against the Con-Dem’s comprehensive cuts on 23 October
London, Cardiff, Manchester, Bristol, Portsmouth…
TUC 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…
PCS fights to defend jobs and pensions
Socialist Students
When they say fees will rise… we fight back and organise!
Student tuition fees: what Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students say
School students strike in Dover
Action against EMA cuts in Huddersfield and Mansfeild
Socialist Party news and analysis
Con-Dem attacks will lead to social cleansing
Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi
Labour 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.
Children – a privilege for the rich?
Anti-racism
Community 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
Socialist Party workplace news
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 members in a packed mass meeting protest launch campaign to stop the closure of Newport Passport Office, photo Socialist Party Wales
Greenwich council threatens mass sackings
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
The 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
International socialist news
Stalinism 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…