Anti-cuts campaigning
Build mass action to save our health service: The NHS is not safe in Con-Dem hands. A new Royal College of Nursing (RCN) report warns that one in eight of all nursing jobs are set to disappear in the next three years. The government puts ‘saving’…
NHS in the firing line, photo Paul Mattsson
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Fighting the cuts after 26 March demo
Hands off our services – Westminster
Westminster: ‘Save Our Children’s Services Westminster’ organised a lively and effective protest on 8 April against Westminster council’s cuts, writes Elizabeth O’Hara.
Hands off our Services – Leeds
Leeds: Local mental health service users and mental health workers lobbied Labour-controlled Leeds city council against its plans to close mental health day centres across the city without serious consultation with workers and service users, writes Dave Younger, Leeds City Socialist Party .
Socialist Party editorial
Revolutions in danger, decisive workers’ action necessary: Recent days have again shown that, despite the masses’ yearning for real change, freedom and the heroic events of the past months, none of the revolutions in North Africa have so far secured a certain victory…
Socialist Party feature
Con-Dems’ economic policy… austerity, austerity, austerity!
‘The worst is yet to come’ The Con-Dem chancellor, George Osborne, claims his budget (24 March) is the “most pro-growth budget for a generation”, writes Lynn Walsh, Editor of Socialism Today.
Protesting in Manchester in January, photo Dave Beale
Socialist Party workplace news
Jobcentre Plus call centre strike
We are not numbers!: Jane Aitchison, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) PCS president, explains why PCS members are striking in all Jobcentre Plus call centres on 18 April…
PCS strike placard
Delegates disappointed: This year’s Unison health conference, held in Liverpool, was the first major union gathering since the magnificent demonstration on 26 March, writes Roger Davey, Unison health service group executive, personal capacity.
NUJ conference calls for general strike
Striking against a Coventry academy
Strike action at Tile Hill Woods school (THW) in Coventry has been stepped up against plans to turn the school into an academy, writes Sunara Begum.
International socialist news and analysis
Portugal:’We won’t pay their debt!’
End the dictatorship of the capitalist markets: The latest eurozone country to face a default on its sovereign debt is Portugal, whose minority government of prime minister Jose Socrates collapsed on 23 March…
‘Unions and socialism to blame for deficit’ – rants Glenn Beck
Youth Fight for Jobs
Jarrow jobs march gains momentum
Support from trade unions for the Jarrow march for jobs (initiated by campaign group Youth Fight for Jobs) has taken off, writes Paul Callanan, Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Coordinated strike action to defeat the cuts
“…every activist must be a leader in their own workplace and community…”: The big question arising from the tremendous TUC march last month is where does the movement go from here…
TUC demontration 26 March , photo Paul Mattsson
Banking giants avoid punishment
No to nuclear power – nationalise the environment-unfriendly energy giants
The News of the World has finally admitted what the whole world knew – that phone hacking was far more widespread within that organisation than had been uncovered by the first police investigation, writes Ken Douglas.
