Youth Fight for Education
Young people lead fight against cuts
Join the national education shutdown on ‘Day X’
There is now no doubting the opposition to education cuts amongst young people. Over 50,000 marched in London on the 10 November National Union of Students (NUS) demo. But, students were not willing to…
Nottingham University students occupy
We can win: student struggle must escalate
Newcastle students protest, photo Elaine Brunskill
Socialist Party editorial
Unity – but not unity of the graveyard
Editorial On 27 November 100,000 workers took to the streets in Ireland in a gigantic show of opposition to the cuts raining down on them…
London anti-cuts demo organised by the RMT, FBU, PCS, NUT, National Shop Stewards Network and other unions, photo Suzanne Beishon
How can an anti-cuts movement be built? Coalition of Resistance conference report
EIGHT HUNDRED people came to London to fill the main hall of the Camden Centre, and a smaller overflow meeting room, for the inaugural gathering of the Coalition of Resistance (CoR) on Saturday 27 November, writes Clive Heemskerk.
Anti-cuts campaign
Birmingham council workers strike, April 2008, included Unison, GMB, NUT and PCS workers, photo S O’Neill
Riot police called to Lewisham town hall lobby
Irish working class in huge show of defiance
DESPITE THE atrocious weather between 50,000 to 100,000 people braved the arctic conditions and marched through Dublin on Saturday 27 November in a massive display of anger against the Irish coalition government’s latest austerity budget…
Fight against cuts continues to grow
Coventry council – stop job cuts
NHS walk-in centre saved, but campaign continues
Anti-racism
Nuneaton protest against racist EDL
On Saturday 27 November Socialist Party members and allies in the Nuneaton Anti-Fascist Alliance staged a successful counter-protest of over 150 people as the English Defence League (EDL) marched through Nuneaton, writes Pete Playdon Nuneaton Anti-Fascist Alliance.
Anti-EDL campaigners in Nuneaton, photo Bob Smith
The Socialist Interview
Len McCluskey speaks to The Socialist: Building workers’ confidence
Interview with Len McCluskey, General secretary elect of Unite, Britian’s biggest union You’ve only just been elected and already David Cameron is condemning you in Parliament – for correctly pointing out there’s no such thing as an ‘irresponsible strike’. What are your priorities as the new leader of an important union?
Len McCluskey, Unite’s general secretary, photo Suzanne Beishon
Socialist Party workplace news
PCS: Vote ‘yes’ for action against cuts
The national executive (NEC) of civil service union PCS is launching a policy ballot urging members to vote ‘yes’ to reject the government’s proposals on the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS), writes John McInally, PCS national vice-president, personal capacity.
Kevin Greenway, President of PCS MoJ group and Socialist Party member, addresses PCS protest outside Ministry of Justice , photo Paul Mattsson
London Underground strike most solid so far
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
Wales TUC leadership tries to stifle action to stop the cuts
International socialist news and analysis
North Korean artillery attack raises tensions
THE UNSTABLE military regime in North Korea has once again thrust itself into global headlines. On 23 November its artillery exchanged shellfire with South Korea on the island of Yeongpyeong, administered…
Portugal: ‘Biggest strike action ever’
Climate change
Climate change: Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe
CLIMATE CHANGE is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says. Millions suffered great hardship…
Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson
Readers’ comments
Our health – A market for big business
YOUR HEALTH care is being privatised. Your body’s ailments may worry you but to someone else they will be soon be a commodity to be bartered for, bought and sold on the free market, writes an NHS healthworker.
