Fighting cuts and fees
November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan
The fight goes on against fees and cuts
What we think: AN UPRISING has occurred of school, college and university students, fighting for their futures. The trigger has been the trebling of tuition fees, but the anger is wider – against the removal of the Education…
Youth Fight for Education
Youth Fight for Education launch
Sunday 5 December saw the launch rally of Youth Fight for Education (YFE) – a campaign formed by Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) to help coordinate some of the actions taking place in defence of education and with the aim of giving a strategy for victory to the protests, writes Michael Wrack, Westminster University YFE.
Jethro Waldon addresses Youth Fight for Education launch meeting
Youth Fight for Jobs conference report
30 November: student day of action on cuts and fees
Con-Dems can be defeated: Welsh Assembly backs down on EMA and fees
Showing the impact of the mass student protests over the past few weeks, the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) has pledged to maintain Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) despite the funding from Westminster being stopped from next year, writes Sarah Wrack.
Sixty students from Haberdasher Aske’s Hatcham College in New Cross Gate joined the central London protests on 24 November, writes Tom Jousselin.
Anti-cuts campaign
Council cuts put most vulnerable at risk: The Tory/Liberal-led Birmingham council is preparing to trim £300 million from its budget by 2014 by cutting 10,000 jobs and devastating services, a Unison member writes.
Kettled students protesting against massive fees rise and the abolition of the EMA, photo Suzanne Beishon
Tories’ secret job cuts plan exposed
‘We need fighting unions to halt cuts’
NEATH AND Port Talbot local authority has reached an agreement with the majority of unions, including Unison, representing its 7,000 workforce on implementing massive cuts, Socialist Party members in Unison write.
Nottingham march against billionaire tax dodgers
As part of a national day of protests on unpaid tax, Nottinghamshire SOS (Save Our Services) organised a protest outside a Vodafone store before moving on to other stores to expose tax avoidance by companies, a Nottingham Socialist Party member writes.
National Shop Stewards Network
All-Britain Anti-Cuts Campaign to be launched
National Shop Stewards Network: Just as the student movement reaches Day X, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) has set out the agenda for its anti-cuts conference on 22 January, writes Rob Williams, NSSN vice-chair.
NSSN lobby of TUC, photo Dave Beale
Building the anti-cuts movement
Scotland: Unison votes for fighting cuts strategy
TUSC calls election campaign conference
Keep the post public campaign
Keep the post public coalition – CWU rally and Lobby
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Housing under attack: Ripping off the roof over our heads
The Con-Dem government plans a 63% cut in funding for social house building. They want to remove security of tenure for new social housing tenants and are introducing massive cuts in housing benefit…
A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Medirest health workers need help to fight multinational
As we reported last week, workers employed by Medirest at hospitals in Buckinghamshire are balloting for strike action to achieve their rightful terms and conditions…
Campaign stops health bosses’ closure plan
Don’t let profit become the bottom line in care
FOLLOWING A BBC South ‘Inside Out’ programme in October that showed the moment in January 2009 when a nurse switched off a ventilator that led to a disabled man being permanently brain-damaged, film of the incident went ‘viral’ on the internet, a Unison member writes.
Anti-racism
TV documentary, reviewed by Naomi Byron
DESPITE THE crushing electoral defeat for the British National Party (BNP) in May 2010, and the internal struggles it caused them, the discontent and anger they were exploiting still exist in Barking…
RMT general secretary Bob Crow addresses an RMT protest against the BNP in Barking, east London, photo Senan
On Saturday 4 December around 250 local activists in Hull, including trade unionists, Kurdish people and users of the Pearson Park mosque, joined together to oppose a hate-spreading demonstration by the British National Party (BNP), a Hull Socialist Party member writes.
International socialist news and analysis
Protesters demand halt to opencast coal mining in Bangladesh
Protesters demand halt to opencast coal mining in Bangladesh outside mining company Global Coal Management Resources Ltd annual general meeting , photo M Thain
Egypt’s regime perpetrates a massive election fraud
WIDESPREAD INTIMIDATION of voters and opposition candidates and blatant ballot rigging resulted in ‘victory’ for Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) in the country’s recent parliamentary elections, writes David Johnson.
Warmonger Rajapaksa forced to abandon his Oxford Union speech
