Anti-cuts campaign
Fight all cuts in jobs and services
Unite members on strike to save a Coventry youth centre, photo Clive Dunkley
Build coordinated action to stop cuts
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
Three days after the announcement of the government’s savage spending cuts London’s firefighters will be on strike, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party.
London firefighters have answered their bullying bosses with a massive vote for strike action.
Firefighters demonstrate against the threat of mass sackings, photo Suzanne Beishon
Socialist Party news and analysis
NHS: Not safe in Con-Dem hands
THE FUNDING crisis facing the NHS is even now becoming apparent. The Guardian reported on 13 October that the South West Essex primary care trust (PCT) has overspent by £52 million, writes Leigh Cartwright.
Marching to defend the NHS
Coventry jobs slaughter – unions must fight back
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
Government slams door shut on social housing
Osborne mugs poor to pay for rich
Socialist Students
Mass action needed to defeat fees and cuts
Browne Review: threat of a two-tier education system: Lord Browne has recommended that universities be free to charge unlimited tuition fees from 2012. This is a door slammed firmly in the face of those looking to education…
Over 100 students and workers at Warwick university came to an emergency protest on the steps of the university piazza, photo Warwick Socialist Students
Warwick university – students condemn escalation of fees
Over 100 students and workers at Warwick university came to an emergency protest on the steps of the university piazza, called by Socialist Students, writes Lenny Shail, Warwick Socialist Students.
Over 100 students and workers at Warwick university came to an emergency protest on the steps of the university piazza
Leeds university – protest following Browne review
Around 70 students from Leeds university came out to protest following the announcement of the conclusions of the Browne Review…
Socialist Party workplace news
Huge demo against passport office closure in Newport
Newport fights the cuts: Everyone in Newport has been incensed by the decision to close the Passport Office here. In just a few days the whole community mobilised and a good 1,000 people came on the noisy demonstration around…
Newport Demo to save the Passport Office: John McInally, Vice president, Public and Commercial Services union, with the IPS group banner , photo Socialist Party Wales
RMT executive election: Support Lewis Peacock
Trade Unionists lobbying parliament – trying to persuade at least 100 MPs to turn up at John McDonnell’s Lawful Industrial Action bill’s second reading, to prevent the Tories crushing it, photo by Suzanne Beishon
Police try to stifle Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition protest
It wasn’t a nice sight – the spectacle of two Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) election candidates, one apparently having his collar felt and the other being dragged away by the police on the eve of poll of the last general and local council elections, writes Craig Johnston, RMT national executive member.
Strike forces concessions at Tyneside Safety Glass
Tyneside Safety Glass (TSG) workers have suspended a further two weeks of strike action as factory bosses have made concessions…
Unite members on strike on the picket line at Tyneside safety Glass, photo Elaine Brunskill
International socialist news and analysis
Protest, strike, fightback! French workers and youth challenge cuts
The mobilisation of the French working class has now reached a crucial stage. Strikes and mass demonstrations on 19 October, according to the CGT trade union confederation, again brought a staggering 3.5…
French workers demonstrate in Brussels for the European day of action, 29 September 2010, photo by Paul Mattsson
World economy heading for ‘double-dip’ recession
Socialism 2010
Socialism 2010: ideas to fight the cuts
If you’re opposed to the Con-Dem cabinet of millionaires making working class people pay for the bankers’ bailouts then you should attend Socialism 2010, writes Sean Figg.
Socialism 2010 Programme
Socialist Party reviews
Days of Hope by Jim Allen, reviewed by Leigh Cartwright
Reviews: AT A car boot sale I bought (for 20p!) a book called Days of Hope by Jim Allen. The book, which can be found second-hand on the internet, was the fictional story (but historically accurate) of a group…
Enter Shikari – Common Dreads (album 2009)
Sport
Liverpool FC: “They don’t care about fans!”
Readers’ comment: “THEY ONLY care about money, they don’t care about fans, Liverpool Football Club is in the wrong hands!” sang Liverpool FC fans gathered outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice…
