The Socialist issue 663
TUC demo
Fight all cuts: for a 24-hour public sector general strike
Fight all cuts: Join the demonstration: Assemble 11am, 26 March, Victoria Embankment between Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges…
For a 24-hour public sector general strike, photo by David Smith
No education cuts: We can win the battle!
Want to fight the cuts? Join the socialists!
The relentless pursuit of profit brought about the banking crisis and recession. Our world is run on that basis – the short-sighted, chaotic capitalist system that exists only to enrich the fat cats…
War and occupation
Libya: no to western military intervention
The UN Security Council’s majority decision to impose a ‘no-fly zone’, while greeted with joy on the streets of Benghazi and Tobruk, was in no way intended to defend the Libyan revolution…
Libya under attack from Western military intervention
Socialist Party youth and students
75 Years ago 200 Jarrow workers were forced to March for Jobs: Why is sky-high unemployment back?
David Cameron recently labelled the 20.5% youth unemployment rate a matter of “great regret” writes Dylan Hussey.
March for Jobs 2011
Young people and staff protest against Connexions closure
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Government health ‘reforms’: The Con-Dems’ future doesn’t work
Tens of thousands of health workers’ jobs are being axed by NHS trusts. This is a result of billions of pounds of ‘efficiency savings’ initiated by the previous Labour government and carried on with…
NHS demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson
Little to laugh about in ‘Carry On Cuts’ budget
Socialist Party workplace news
Rail unions win over anti-strike laws
On Friday 4 March 2011 the Court of Appeal in London handed down definitive judgements in two important industrial action cases, writes Alex Gordon, president of the RMT union. An edited version of this article appeared in the Socialist as ‘Trade union victory over anti-strike laws’
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
400 construction workers fight lock-out at BP Saltend, Hull
Stopping the cuts with the NSSN
Wales university lecturers’ strike just the beginning
University lecturers strike
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
What has socialism got to do with fighting the cuts?
Each week members of the Socialist Party sell copies of the Socialist newspaper at workplaces, colleges, stations, town centres and working class estates all over England and Wales, as well as at protests and meetings…
Socialist Party members sell The Socialist, photo Paul Mattsson
International socialist news and analysis
Organise the fightback – from Tahrir Square to Wisconsin
The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI – the socialist international organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) fights for an alternative to cuts, crisis and capitalism worldwide, writes Stephan Kimmerle.
Socialist history
Liverpool city council’s historic victory over the Thatcher government
When organised mass action defeated the Tories: “Two unlovely black eyes” declared the Daily Mail. It was condemning Thatcher’s environment secretary Patrick Jenkin for his retreat over extra funding for Liverpool. It wrote: “The Trotskyites and…
Liverpool city council’s struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair
Mass non-payment – how the poll tax was beaten
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
On 5 May millions of voters will pass judgement on the Con-Dem coalition in elections to local councils, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, writes Councillor Dave Nellist, Acting chair, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.
Dave Nellist at the TUSC Launch rally, London March 2010, photo Alison Hill
