Socialist Party youth and students
NUS student and UCU demonstration against tuition fees and education cuts, photo Sarah Wrack
Massive student demo shows anti-cuts anger
NUS student and UCU demonstration against cuts and tuition fees, photo Sarah Wrack
24 November – Strike against fees and cuts
Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) and Socialist Students have initiated a defence campaign for students who have been charged with an offence following the occupation of the Tories’ Millbank headquarters on 10 November…
10 November demonstration: Students fighting back
Three east London students in their first year of college spoke to Sarah Wrack about the protest at Millbank. Why did you go on the demonstration… ?
War and occupation
Afghanistan: Withdraw the troops now!
The Nato onslaught on Afghanistan is now in its tenth year. Ten years of horrific brutality inflicted on those who have fought against the invasion and on many thousands of civilians in the areas under…
Demonstrating against war in Afghanistan, photo A Hill
Socialist Party workplace news
Kirklees – fighting £400 million budget cut
After months of delays and deliberation by the leadership of Unison both locally and regionally, Kirklees Unison has voted to ballot for strike action against cuts and redundancies, a Unison member writes.
Kirklees Save Our services trade union protest against cuts , photo Huddersfield Socialist Party
Protests and meetings against the cuts
Liverpool lobby of council: Tony Mulhearn (holding The Socialist), waiting to speak, Daren Ireland, RMT and President of Liverpool TUC, addressing demo , photo Merseyside Socialist Party
Manchester law centre staff protest against funding cuts, photo Hugh Caffrey
Ballot cancelled in BA dispute
National Shop Stewards Network: Anti-cuts conference
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG. See also www.shopstewards.net.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Universal Credit – a thinly veiled attack on the sick and unemployed
The government launched its white paper proposals for universal credit to replace most of the current benefit system with a barrage of publicity that sought to demonise the unemployed. Jane Aitchison, PCS union president of the Department for Work and Pensions (personal capacity) investigates.
Coalition turns back the clock on justice
Tories promote fast food nation
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its campaign for the 2011 local elections
We need councillors who will fight the cuts! “These cuts will hurt”, warned the Tory chair of the Local Government Association, Lady Eaton. “Up to 100,000 jobs in local authorities will go. That’s one in ten of the workforce”, writes Clive Heemskerk.
Socialist-led Liverpool city council’s struggle in 1983-87 led to mass demonstrations and thousands of new council houses built, photo Dave Sinclair
International socialist news and analysis
Ireland: ‘Not simply a crisis but an absolute disaster’
THE ECONOMY in the Irish Republic is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and the government may be forced to go, cap in hand, to the European Union to obtain a bailout…
Ireland: United Left Alliance to challenge at next general election
Support the Laura Ashley strikers
Socialist Party review
Britain’s trillion pound horror story
TV review: EVER SINCE the worldwide economic recession started in 2008, Britain’s bankers and big business have been trying to avoid responsibility for the crisis…
