NHS Cuts: Stop the Con-Dem wreckers

Tory minister Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill threatens the break-up of the NHS. What the bill introduces, such as contracting out GP services to private groups and companies, is bad enough…

NHS: Stop the Connaught closure

Join the Jarrow march!

March for jobs 2011: Recent research has shown that half of all final year university students say they wouldn’t have applied to university if fees had been £9,000 a year, writes Tom Baldwin.

Cracks grow in Con-Dem coalition

From the start the Con-Dem government has been weak. The Tories were forced into a coalition because they could not win a mandate for massive cuts in public spending. With the biggest drop in family income since 1977, and the cuts starting to bite, the unpopularity of the government has grown dramatically. As a result, the cracks in the coalition are widening.

Cuts hit disabled people hard

Benefits slashed: Disabled people and family carers are now experiencing an unprecedented attack. Cuts made and planned by the Tory/Liberal coalition will hit the public and community services they use and the benefits…

Review: The monarchy – reserve weapon of the ruling class?

BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze programme recently dealt with the monarchy against a background of the circus surrounding the wedding of Wills and Kate…

May Day in Kazakhstan marked by attacks on socialists

Coventry residents’ victory over Academy land snatch

Fast news

More teachers vote for pensions strike ballot

Headteachers have voted overwhelmingly to ballot for strike action over pension cuts. At the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers 99.6% voted for a ballot, while 0.4% abstained.

Rotherham teachers strike again to defend their union rep

National Shop Stewards Network

Paris commune 1871: When workers “stormed heaven”.

The mass struggles against dictatorships and poverty sweeping North Africa and the Middle East encourage workers and young people in the region and internationally to seek to learn from previous revolutionary movements, writes Niall Mulholland

Osama Bin Laden – killed by US forces

US / Pakistan: The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden, writes Tony Saunois, from socialistworld.net, website of the committee for a workers’ international, CWI. (An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist issue 669.)

Socialists elected to leading positions in Greenwich Unite

Solidarity action builds for BP/Vivergo Saltend workers