National Shop Stewards Network
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
Discussing an NSSN anti-cuts campaign
London anti-cuts demonstration jointly called by the NSSN, RMT, NUT, FBU, PCS and other unions, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Government health bill spells disaster for patients and workers: THE GOVERNMENT is planning a massive assault on the NHS in England in its latest health bill. This is on top of billions of pounds of ‘efficiency savings’ ie cuts, in the NHS budget, a London health workers explains…
Socialist Party members on NHS demonstration in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
International socialist news and analysis
WIDESPREAD PROTESTS over unemployment, high food prices and a lack of democratic rights has resulted in a popular uprising in Tunisia and the overthrow of its hated dictator, president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Chahid Gashir, a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), reports on the uprising, its international impact and what programme is necessary to take the revolution forward.
Tunisians defied the repressive forces of the state to overthrow the dictator, president Ben Ali
Socialist Party news and analysis
MPs’ expenses scam continues: for workers’ MPs on a worker’s wage
ON 7 January 2011 the former Labour MP for Bury North, David Chaytor, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to 18 months’ imprisonment for ‘false accounting’ writes Coventry Socialist Party Councillor Dave Nellist (former Labour MP 1983-1992)…
Dave Nellist
Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election: A left-wing workers’ alternative needed
THE OLDHAM East and Saddleworth parliamentary by-election on 13 January, a three-way marginal seat last year, was a muted affair in much of Oldham this time, an Oldham Socialist Party member writes.
Wales referendum: Vote Yes on 3 March – Defend public services in Wales
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Socialist Party youth and students
Student receives draconian sentence
Youth Democratic Rights Campaign: Edward Woollard, the student protester who has admitted dropping a fire extinguisher from the roof of the Tory Party HQ on 10 November 2010, has been handed a 32-month jail sentence, writes Claire Laker Mansfield, Socialist Students.
Police on student demonstration – hundreds of protesters have been injured by police violence, photo Senan
Students demand – ‘save our EMA’
November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan
Education Maintenance Allowance: 11 January day of action
Reports from Nottingham, Halifax, Truro, Cornwall and Leeds Notts: After a small rally in the Old Market Square, we marched to a rally outside the Vodafone store resulting in it closing for the rest of the working day, writes Stuart Lambert.
Urgent action needed to end youth unemployment
Socialist Party workplace news
PCS members vote for battle against cuts
Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members have given a resounding 90% ‘yes’ in an indicative ballot to reject the government’s proposals to rip up their contracts and steal accrued rights on redundancy payments under the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS), writes John McInally, PCS national vice president (personal capacity).
PCS members protest
Strike at sweatshop DWP centres
DWP PCS workers on strike, photo The Socialist
Teachers strike against redundancies
Heinz strikes force improved offer
Cameron ‘thanks’ postal workers by axing their jobs and pensions
