Socialist Party youth and students
Workers and students unite!:
* 20% youth unemployment:
Invest in jobs and services!
* £9,000 student fees:
For free education!
* EMA payments scrapped:
Defend and extend EMA!
Students on the march, photo Sarah Wrack
Where next for the student movement?
Education Maintenance Allowance days of action 18 and 19 January
Around 600 students marched in central London against the scrapping of EMA, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
No to sky-high youth unemployment!
Socialist Party news and analysis
Warning: Government health ‘reforms’ can seriously damage your health
‘EQUITY AND Excellence: Liberating the NHS’… so benevolently named is the government’s car crash of a health bill which is going through parliament, that frankly there should be a health warning attached…
Socialist Party members on NHS demonstration in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
Phone hacking and media spin – the murky world of Andy Coulson
Food price hikes fuelling unrest
FOOD PRICE rises have caused mass protests in Algeria, Mozambique and Yemen, as well as being a major factor in the movement that recently toppled the Tunisian dictator, president Ben Ali, writes Naomi Byron.
Fight the Con-Dem ‘bosses’ charter’
RMT leader slams anti-union laws
Socialist Party workplace news
Hampshire: Battling to defend jobs
ON 19 January, Hampshire County Council (HCC) announced that they were going to sack 1,200 workers. This announcement was released to the media before the Unison trade union was informed of the full scale…
Demonstration in Southampton by Unite and Unison against Tory attacks on terms and conditions and cuts in public services. Around 1000 workers took part, photo David Smith
Second show of strength by Medirest workers
National Shop Stewards Network
NSSN anti-cuts campaign launched
Nearly 600 people, mostly workers with elected positions in trade union branches, trades councils, workplaces and anti-cuts alliances, filled a hall in Camden on Saturday 22 January for the special anti-cuts conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN).
National Shop Stewards Network anti-cuts conference, photo Paul Mattsson
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) conference
International socialist news and analysis
Irish government collapses: United Left Alliance offers real alternative
After the economic collapse of the so-called ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy, Ireland is spiralling into social and political disintegration…
Joe Higgins with Clare Daly
Tunisia: Protesters demand real democracy and social change
50 years ago: Congo’s independence leader assassinated
Socialist Party schools features
Tidemill school – victory for parents
ONE OF the flagship academies planned was Tidemill Primary School in Deptford in south London. Head master Mark Elms, who achieved widespread media attention when he became Britain’s highest-paid ‘superhead’,…
Do not close our schools: Medway schools protest, photo Jacqui Berry
Bankers’ “Free school” excludes poorer pupils
Socialist Party review
Britain’s Banks: Too Big to Save?
TV Review: Journalist Robert Peston’s BBC documentary, Britain’s Banks: Too Big to Save?, gave a useful explanation of how Britain’s banks have operated over the last two decades, leading to the banking crash of 2008, writes Sean Figg.
BBC programme: Britian’s banks: too big to fail
Comment
Three decades of ‘reform’ and ‘flexibility’
Since the election in 1979 of Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government the people of this country have been subjected to a diatribe of rubbish under headlines such as ‘reform’ and ‘flexibility’, writes Craig Johnston, RMT union executive member.
London anti-cuts demonstration jointly called by the NSSN, RMT, NUT, FBU, PCS and other unions, photo Paul Mattsson
