Anti-cuts campaign
Defend jobs and services: Protest 26 March
Labour councillors’ conference lobbied by hundreds of angry trade unionists, photo Suzanne Beishon
Building the battle against the cuts – now and beyond 26 March
What we say: This government has started a war on behalf of the capitalist class against the working class and public services…
Campaigning against all cuts and privatisation
Socialist Party news and analysis
Hutton’s plans mean savage cuts – Fight to defend your pension!
Martin Powell-Davies explains what Hutton’s proposals on pensions will mean for teachers and why they, and millions of other public sector workers, need to urgently ballot for strike action against this major attack. A slightly edited version of this article apeared in the Socialist.
Rawmarsh Community School NUT teachers in Rotherham took nine days of strike action against cuts and redundancies, winning a repreive, photo Chris Borman
Vote for a socialist alternative
Huge protests against job insecurity
The rich get richer – by another $1 trillion
Youth fight for jobs
March from Jarrow with Youth Fight for Jobs
As youth unemployment soars… The announcement of the latest youth unemployment figures comes as a chilling reminder of the worsening situation facing workers and young people, writes Danny Byrne.
No to cuts! Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, photo Suzanne Beishon
For real jobs not exploitation
Socialist Party workplace news
Northern Ireland: Broad left gains in union elections
Northern Ireland’s largest trade union, NIPSA, has completed elections for its executive body, the general council, writes Padraig Mulholland, NIPSA Public Officers’ Executive and Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) member, Belfast.
Privatisation threat to the blood service?
NHS workers in NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) were amazed to find themselves targeted in a series of carefully orchestrated leaks from the Department of Health, informing us that the government was looking at privatising ‘key elements’ of the Blood Service, NHSBT workers write.
Defend jobs and education at Newcastle College
Action called off by Birmingham bin workers
Left victory in building workers’ union
International socialist news and analysis
Japan: Tsunami results in misery for millions
As we go to press the horrendous tsunami and earthquakes have claimed an estimated 3,000 lives in Japan. The final toll could be tens of thousands…
Japan: earthquake and tsunami: an aerial view of tsunami damage in Tōhoku, photo from Wikipedia
Workers hit hard by earthquake and tsunami
Exclusive report from Japan
Take over the power and building industries!
Millions around the world watched, read and listened in horror to the reports coming from Japan on 11 March and the days that followed…
Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories: “We’ll struggle like in Egypt”
How the recent movements in the Arab countries are affecting political consciousness in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories…
Tunisia: ‘You come back – we come back’
Saudi troops to suppress Bahrain protesters
Socialist Party campaigns
Thousands protest against Lib Dems in Sheffield
About 500 people protested on Friday evening (11 March) and ten times that number on Saturday’s demonstration (12 March) in Sheffield outside the Lib Dem spring conference. An edited version of this report was carried in The Socialist.
5000 people protested in Sheffield outside the Liberal Democrats’ spring conference, photo Robbie Faulds
Protester challenges Lib Dem MP to debate
Lively discussion at LGBT meeting
Leeds: Celebrating International Women’s Day
Celebrate International Workers’ Day in the Socialist with a May Day greeting
