Socialist Students
£9,000 student fees: we won’t pay!
Build a mass, national, democratic campaign against cuts and fees
* NO to fees rising to up to £9,000 a year and 80% cuts to universities’ teaching budgets!
* NO to interest rates on student loans of up to 3% above inflation!
* NO to scrapping EMA and 25% cuts to college budgets!
* NO to young people and workers paying for the bankers’ crisis!
Youth Fight For Jobs march 2 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
No to £9,000 tuition fees: Fight for your future!
Campaign to Defeat Fees demo 25 February 2009, photo Naomi Byron
Ireland: Largest student protest in a generation
Anti-cuts campaign
Stop the Con-Dems’ slave labour scheme
Fight for real jobs! On 7 November the Con-Dem government leaked its plans to force the unemployed into unpaid slave labour, writes Paul Callanan, Youth Fight for Jobs.
Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration in Barking, photo Paul Mattsson
What the capitalist cuts really mean
National Shop Stewards Network: Anti-cuts conference
Saturday 22 January 2011, 12-4pm
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG.
Socialism 2010
Socialism 2010: An inspirational weekend
“I found Socialism 2010 a really inspiring event. As PCS President for members in the Department for Work and Pensions, every day I am fighting the cuts that threaten our jobs and the much needed benefits…
Socialism 2010 rally, photo Paul Mattsson
Youth
Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students conference
Organise the fightback: This will be a great opportunity to have your say in shaping the future of YFJ which has already held several successful demonstrations and attracted the support of six national trade unions…
Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, photo Paul Mattsson
Leeds: Stop the closure of Union Books
The plans to close the student union run book shop, Union Books, at Leeds University has been met by an angry campaign by Leeds University Against Cuts (LUAC) which Socialist Students is playing a leading role in, writes Ian Pattison, Leeds Socialist Students.
Goldsmiths students occupy town hall
Socialist Party editorial
London firefighters’ dispute: the fight is not over
The London district committee of the firefighters’ union, the FBU, voted by 19 to 3 to postpone its strike action planned for 5 and 6 November…
Ian Leahair, Fire Brigades Union (FBU) executive council member for London, on picket line, photo Suzanne Beishon
Massive anger must be organised into coordinated trade union action
Socialist Party workplace news
London tube strike – picket line reports
The third day of joint strike action on 3 November by RMT and TSSA rail unions on London Underground shut down 107 stations across the network…
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
BBC staff fight for pensions: picket line reports
Updated 9/11/10 Programmes and services across the BBC have been affected on Friday 5 November by members of the NUJ taking industrial action to stop attacks on their pensions…
Socialist Party news and analysis
Vendetta continues against Tommy Sheridan, socialist fighter
Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s perjury trial is now in its sixth week and is certain to be the longest case of its kind in Scottish legal history…
Tommy Sheridan speaking at Socialism 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
Angry campaigners discuss Stroud fightback
NHS – workers looking for a fighting lead
Socialist Party feature
Attacks on disabled people’s rights
A recent Observer exposé of the implications of Con-Dem cuts on one London borough described a nightmare scenario…
Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi
International socialist news and analysis
Scotland: potential to build a mass movement against cuts
A very positive meeting of anti-cuts campaigns and trade unionists took place in Glasgow on Saturday 6 November, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.
Anti-cuts demonstration in Edinburgh, photo Ray Smith
US elections: Bankruptcy of Democrats leads to spectacular fall
Socialist Party review
Review: Call Mr Robeson: A Life, with Songs
KATE JONES reviews Call Mr Robeson: A Life, with Songs, a one-man show currently on tour. It is coming to Coventry (Belgrade Theatre) on 27 November and Lincoln (University) on 11 December. For further…
