Strike back at pensions robbery!

Fight all the cuts – come to the NSSN conference

Battle for the NHS!

David Cameron has made clearer than ever what side he’s on regarding the NHS. “It is because I love the NHS so much that I want to change it,” he said. This speech spelt out that only very minor compromises,…

Derriford hospital announces huge cuts

Derriford Hospital, the major health facility in west Devon and Cornwall, has announced massive cuts, Plymouth Socialist Party members write.

Crisis deepens in the eurozone

What we think The eurozone faces its deepest crisis since the euro was launched in 1999. Failure to resolve the sharpening Greek debt emergency would have a devastating effect on the European and world economies.

The Hardest Hit march and rally

I attended the disabled people’s protest in central London on Wednesday 11 May as part of a group organised by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, writes Adrian Picton.

Teachers’ strike stops job cuts

Iraq war: Labour’s lie machine

A former British senior intelligence officer claims that Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, ‘sexed up’ the Labour government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in 2002 to include the bogus threat that the Saddam Hussein regime could launch weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against British interests within 45 minutes.

Pay gap grows ever wider

‘Under capitalism the rich get richer and the poor get poorer’. Merely Marxist propaganda? Not so. A new report by the high pay commission shows that the wage gap between UK’s highest earners and the rest of workers will soon be as wide as in Victorian times.

News in brief

Britain now facing crisis on all fronts

If splits at the top denote opposition from below, then the character of the divisions between the alleged ‘partners’ in the Con-Dem government means that a massive social and political revolt is brewing in Britain…

Northern Ireland: The ‘no change’ elections

On 5 May elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly and local councils saw the further consolidation of the two largest parties, the loyalist Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the republican Sinn Féin, writes Socialist Party (CWI, Northern Ireland).

UCU at the crossroads on pensions

Lecturers in the further and higher education sectors are being attacked on all fronts by the Con-Dem government and the employers – cuts, job losses, pay and pensions…

CWU conference: Support joint union action on 30 June

Morale among postal workers has never been so low. We think things can’t get any worse but they do. One of the Brown government’s final acts was to appoint new chief executive, Moya Greene, with the job of privatising Royal Mail.

BA dispute: Mass meeting votes to put latest agreement to membership

On 12 May at a mass members’ meeting, Unite British Airways (BA)cabin crew voted to put the latest agreement between the union and management to a ballot of the membership, writes Neil Cafferky.

Workplace news in brief

Strike at EHRC: Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members in the Cardiff office of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) had solid support for their second walkout on 11 May, writes Katrine Williams PCS Wales chair.

Con-Dems: Supporting Youth Enslavement

In an attempt to demonstrate the ‘unity’ of the coalition after the Lib Dems’ disastrous results in the local elections, Cameron and Clegg attended a series of events to launch their new plan ‘Supporting Youth Employment’.

Yorkshire Youth Fight for Jobs regional conference

Tory cuts hit children and young people

A leading think tank has estimated that the Con-Dem coalition’s spending cuts could push another 300,000 children below the poverty line, writes Sunara Begum.

Teachers strike and parents picket at Shorefields

Campaigners put pressure on Lambeth council

The difference a union makes

An example of the utter inability of capitalism to answer the basic needs of society, and its young people particularly, was provided to me by my own family recently, an east London Socialist Party member writes.