Anti-cuts campaign
Protest as forty Sure Start centres across Manchester face closure and privatisation as the city council carries out the government spending cuts, photo Manchester Socialist Party
Marching on the Con-Dem conferences in Wales
Fighting the cuts: Thousands protest, lobby and occupy
Lewisham election: There is an alternative!
Determination to beat the cuts
What we think: David Cameron’s announcement that private companies and charities will be able to bid to run schools, hospitals and council services was a further declaration of no-holds-barred war on the public sector…
International socialist news
Fantastic results in Irish election: Socialists and lefts gain five seats
Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly was elected as a TD for the first time in Dublin North with 7,513 first preference votes or 15.2% of the vote, and Joe Higgins, a TD from 1997 to 2007 and currently the Irish Socialist Party’s MEP, was returned to the Dáil (parliament) representing Dublin West, gaining 8,084 votes (19%).
17 MEPs and Irish Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins outside the department of finance in dublin, photo Socialist Party Ireland
Elections see collapse of Fianna Fail, the traditional establishment party
Joe Higgins and Clare Daly
Socialist Party news and analysis
Coalition steps up assault on NHS
RECENTLY, THE anti-cuts website False Economy published its findings from NHS Trusts which showed that well over 50,000 health workers’ jobs will be axed…
On the ‘Save the NHS’ march, 3 November 2007 , photo Paul Mattsson
Westminster: Save our children’s services
A SIX-foot high security fence. A special unit of 1,000 police. Late night court sittings. Sounds like the West Bank? No, welcome to the Lib Dems’ spring conference in Sheffield on 11-13 March! Alistair Tice, Sheffield Socialist Party, writes.
Socialist Party workplace news
Largest protest yet against Wisconsin Governor’s anti-union bill
USA: Saturday, 26 February saw the largest demonstrations yet in Madison, Wisconsin. This was the twelfth consecutive day of protest against Republican Gov. Walker’s bill to effectively eliminate collective bargaining for public sector workers. An edited version of this report was published in the Socialist.
Wisconsin workers protest
Unison witch-hunt: Reinstate the Four!
Youth fight for jobs
Jarrow to London: March for jobs
Join the march! Youth Fight for Jobs is organising a march in the footsteps of the Jarrow crusaders, to demand decent jobs and the right to education for all.
Youth Fight for Jobs march
CWU youth conference ‘ready and willing to take action’
Socialist Party women
International Women’s Day 2011: Women and the fightback
Build a mass movement against cuts and for genuine equality for women: International Women’s Day comes at a time of women’s struggles against exploitation and harassment in Asia and Latin America, strikes and demonstrations against cuts in Europe and of course mass movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya and elsewhere…
Keep the NHS public! On the ‘Save the NHS’ march, 3 November 2007 , photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party congress 2011
Socialist Party 2011 congress – a party growing in strength
The 2011 Socialist Party congress took place on 26-28 February amid the tumultuous changes taking place in Britain and the world. This 300-strong meeting heard from very new delegates and those with decades of party membership.
International socialist news and analysis
THE UPRISING against Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi has left at least 1,000 dead and led to thousands fleeing the fighting, writes Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI).
Tunisia: Revolution and counter-revolution on the streets
Marxist analysis: history
Liverpool 1983-87: the council that fought Thatcher
THE LABOUR council leaders proposing the cuts budget in Liverpool council can feel a spectre haunting them…
