Anti-cuts campaign
Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Suzanne Beishon
London tastes working class power: This was a real workers’ demonstration, a taste of the strength of working class people at the beginning of what needs to be an almighty anti-cuts campaign, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party.
20,000 march in Edinburgh against cuts
Just three days after the Con-Dem government’s spending review that proposed cuts of £81 billion in public spending, well over 20,000 people took to the streets for the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) demonstration on Saturday 23 October in Edinburgh, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.
Wales says: don’t break the poor
Workers in Wales were buoyed up by seeing 600 trade unionists marching through Cardiff city centre and making it clear that we would stand up and fight any cuts in Wales, writes Katrine Williams.
Northern Ireland: build a new party
Police attack Bristol demonstration
Two thousand people from across Bristol protested on 23 October against the Con-Dem government’s latest cuts, writes Frankie Langeland, Bristol Youth Fight for Jobs.
Wave of protests against Con-Dem cuts
Sheffield, Lincoln, Wrexham, Manchester, York: Three hundred students and trade unionists marched from Sheffield University on 23 October to swell the size of the Yorkshire and Humber TUC rally outside Sheffield town hall to 1,000 protesters, reports Alistair Tice…
Socialist Students
Organise to stop education cuts!
Urgent action needed as EMA scrapped: The government definitely Con-Dem-ed young people with the cuts package in the Comprehensive Spending Review!, writes Jethro Waldron, College student, Nottingham.
Sheffield Socialist Students protesting outside deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s constituency office on 20 October 2010, photo Sheffield Socialist Students
Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students day of action
Youth Fight for Jobs conference – 4 December
Organise the fightback:
Socialist Students conference – 5 December
Both start 10am at
University College London, Christopher Ingold Auditorium, Gower Street, London,WC1E 6BT
Nearest Tube: Euston Square/ Warren Street
Step forward for TUC youth unemployment demo
Socialism 2010
Socialism 2010: Weekend of discussion and debate 6-7 November
Socialism 2010 is the weekend to debate how we can fight back aginst cuts, war and environmental destruction, and debate how a socialist alternative can be built…
Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union RMT, addresses Socialism 2009, photo Rob Emery
Socialist Party feature
Mass action urgent against programme for poverty
So brutal, so vicious are the £81 billion cuts announced by George Osborne on ‘Axe Wednesday’ that nothing short of action of mass dimensions by the organised might of the labour movement is acceptable, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party news and analysis
Housing cuts will mean more evictions and social cleansing
CHANCELLOR George Osborne’s spending review represents a nightmare for working class people. His announcement that housing benefit would be restricted to paying for a room rather than a flat for people…
A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill
Axeman Osborne slashes disabled people’s benefits
Government bludgeons workers’ pensions
Bolton: Police brutality exposed
Socialist Party workplace news
Victory to London firefighters!
London firefighters were on strike for eight hours on 23 October, against changes in shift patterns which will pave the way for cuts, writes Paula Mitchell.
100 striking FBU firefighters led the London October 23rd trade union led demonstration against the cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
BA bosses try to control union
Unite general secretary election: Right wing candidate on another planet
