Anti-cuts campaign
The student protests against fees and cuts have marked a watershed. On 9 December the atmosphere was electric. Rough and ready placards pulled no punches. The chants were exhilarating. While students dared…
Students, joined by trade unionists, protest outside parliament on Day X as tuition fees debated, photo Suzanne Beishon
National Shop Stewards Network anti-cuts conference
Saturday 22 January 2011, South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG, near Euston station.
Prepare to build the fight against all cuts in 2011
Students protest outside parliament on Day X as tuition fees debated, photo Suzanne Beishon
Fighting back against council cuts
Swansea: Council cuts must be fought
Scrooge Northern Rail bosses in Christmas pay pantomime: Rail union RMT have slammed Northern Rail for issuing deliberately misleading statements over Christmas working arrangements…
Salford Against Cuts gets organised
Socialist Party feature
Europe: Working class enters the struggle
The tenth world congress of the socialist international to which the Socialist Party is affiliated, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), took place in Belgium between 1 and 9 December…
Demonstrations in France against attacks on pension rights, photo Judy Beishon
Socialist Party news and analysis
US government turns the screws on WikiLeaks
THE CONTINUING publication of leaked US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks highlights the role US imperialism plays in every corner of the world, writes John Sharpe.
Tommy Sheridan trial: Cameron’s spin doctor let off the hook
Garment workers demand a living wage in Bangladesh
ONCE AGAIN thousands of textile workers in Bangladesh were forced to take to the streets last week to demand that all employers pay the new monthly minimum wage which was meant to be implemented by 1 December following protests last July…
Socialist Party youth and students
Condemn brutal policing of students
As parliament prepared to vote on Thursday 9 December on the trebling of tuition fees, 35,000 marched to defend their futures…
Brutal policing faced the students protest outside parliament on Day X as tuition fees debated, photo Suzanne Beishon
Tories to legalise tax cheating
Interview with 24 November protesters
London students vote to coordinate with workers
Reports of ‘Day X’ fees protests
Youth democratic rights campaign: defend all victimised protesters
No more the ‘apathetic generation’
ON 20 October I phoned my daughter to nudge her to participate in the London comprehensive spending review protests, writes a local government worker.
Education
Education white paper: A threat to schools and teachers
The Con-Dem government is not only attacking higher education. MARTIN POWELL DAVIES says that their recent new education white paper ‘The Importance of Teaching’ is a poisonous amalgam of twisted logic and dangerous threats to teachers and the future of education in schools.
300 students from the newly renamed Gower (Further Education) College in Gorseinon, a few miles west of Swansea, joined the national day of action against tuition fee rises and the cutting of the EMA grant, photo Rob Williams
