30 June pensions strike
Next step: one-day public sector strike
After 30 June pensions walkouts: On Tuesday 28 June, two days before 750,000 public sector workers walked out against vicious pension cuts, Tory prime minister David Cameron said: “At a time when discussions are ongoing, I would say to you: these strikes are wrong”…
Socialist Party editorial
Con-Dems’ pension attack demands coordinated and determined response
Editorial: As the Socialist goes to press 750,000 public sector workers are gearing up for coordinated strike action on 30 June…
UCU strikers defend pension rights, photo by Iain Dalton
Unison conference
Unison conference Socialist Party meeting spells out action needed
A packed Socialist Party fringe meeting at Unison conference played host to a vital discussion on how to build for coordinated public sector strike action
Socialist Party fringe meeting at June 2011 Unison conference, photo by Greg Maughan
Unison delegates reject leadership proposals
This year’s Unison conference was far livelier than previous years. Unusually for a union conference, the rules revision session was one of the most lively debates, which showed a lack of trust in the…
Socialist Party news and analysis
This week has seen further announcements about the sweeping privatisation set to hit our higher education system unless it is successfully fought, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socilaist Students.
University staff strike in Sheffield to save pensions, photo Yorkshire Socialist Party
Trade unionists must fight for LGBT rights
Western governments more concerned about business deals than human rights in China
Socialist Party workplace news
‘Hard lesson’ for tube management as driver wins reinstatement
On 23 June Arwyn Thomas, a victimised London Underground train driver was reinstated following a long battle against a vicious management
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
AEI Cables, sacked workers protesting, June 2011, photo Elaine Brunskill
‘No redundancies!’ say Forest Hill school teachers
Forest Hill school strike, Lewisham, June 2011, photo Martin Powell Davies
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Save heart services for children!
A public meeting was held in Leicester recently as one of many ‘consultations’ on changes to children’s congenital heart services in England, writes Becci Heagney.
Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation, photo Paul Mattsson
Jobs threat at Derriford hospital
Nuneaton: exterminate the cuts!
Marching against cuts in Haringey
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
The battle to defend public sector pensions shows again the political vacuum that exists in Britain today, with no mass party representing workers’ interests…
Photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party news
Why I left Labour – and joined the socialists
Being the son of a south Wales valley miner, I have always been a socialist, a trade unionist and I was also a long-time Labour Party member, writes Caerphilly Socialist Party.
Public money into private firms’ hands
International socialist news and analysis
Greece, Spain, Britain… We won’t pay for their crisis
“Liars and thieves!” That’s the accusation that Greek workers and youth are hurling at those in the Greek parliament voting for further cuts, writes Sean Figg.
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI, on massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
Syria: Regime steps up repression… but opposition continues to grow
Eyewitness reports of horrific brutality have been emerging from Syria. In and around the northern city of Jisr al-Shughour, the Syrian army has pursued a ‘scorched earth’ policy, evicting whole villages…
Socialist Party review
Play review: Lee Hall, creator of Billy Elliot, focuses here on the real experiences of Ashington miners who, through the Workers Education Association (WEA), become celebrated artists in their spare time, writes Mark Baker.
The Pitmen Painters, photo by Keith Pattison
Socialist Party features
Workers say: Renationalise the railways!
McNulty report points to further fragmentation and privatisation: The McNulty report on railway ‘value for money’ stands alongside Lansley’s NHS ‘reforms’ as a brazen attack on our public services by this aggressive government, writes TSSA rail union, personal capacity.
RMT protest against Tube privatisation, photo Paul Mattsson
Private railways rip off fares
Research undertaken for the RMT transport union shows that passengers on privatised UK trains have to fork out £4.6 billion a year more than equivalent travellers in France, where railways remain publicly owned.
National Pensioners Convention parliament
Socialist Party events
Socialist Party summer camp – bigger and better than ever!
Friday 26th August to Monday 29th August 2011
New venue, Epping Forest:
Debden House Centre, Debden Green,
Loughton, Essex IG10 2NZ