UNITE AGAINST ALL CUTS

TUC must call action: “We can’t afford a pay cut or losing our increments. People are beginning to see what they’ve lost and for some its £1,000. We are being prepared for privatisation and don’t want it.

Building a workers’ political alternative to the establishment parties

The following resolution on the upcoming Greater London Assembly (GLA) elections was passed at the July meeting of the London Transport regional council of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

Norway: right wing terrorist killings

United working class struggle needed: The terrible mass killings carried out by far right activist Anders Breivik have horrified the world

Waltham Forest: a victory for unity

Waltham Forest, a north east London borough, saw a victory for working class unity against division on Saturday 30 July, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Walthamstow Socialist Party.

NHS cuts from a nurse’s viewpoint

Cameron’s government claims to be ‘defending the NHS.’ He claims the health care budget is ‘ring fenced’, writes an NHS mental health nurse.

Gloucestershire NHS

Eurozone and USA – Debt crisis

The price of capitalist failure: Governments in Europe and the US are making working class people pay for the crisis caused by the bankers and the capitalist system.
The Greek bailout, welcomed by the European ruling classes, will do nothing for the Greek masses

Kazakhstan oil strike: solidarity urgent

Syria: State unleashes new terror

The death toll is rising from the Syrian army’s brutal assault on the mass uprising in the city of Hama and other areas

Spain:”Throwing a shoe at the system”

“The indignados don’t take holidays”, commented one newspaper. “Instead they came in their tens of thousands from all over Spain to turn the heat up on an already sweltering capital.

Bombardier

Save jobs, renationalise UK rail and train building: Around 10,000 marched against job cuts on 23 July in the biggest demonstration in Derby for decades.

Reinstate Paddy Brennan!

Paddy Brennan, Unite convenor at the Swindon Honda plant has been suspended from work. Paddy’s suspension is a provocative attack on a prominent trade union fighter

Workplace news in brief

MARCH FOR JOBS!

Merthyr to Cardiff 4-6 August: Tory work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, singled out Merthyr Tydfil when he implied that the main barrier to jobseekers finding work was their own apathy – ‘why don’t they just get on a bus to Cardiff?’ he asked

Disability rights

Vicious Tory bullies hit…: Government ministers, aided and abetted by the right wing media, have labelled the majority of disability benefit claimants as scroungers after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said 39% were fully fit for work

The great PFI schools rip off – once again!

Before the 2010 general election Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was correct when he said Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes are “a bit of dodgy accounting – a way in which the government can pretend they’re not borrowing when they are

News in brief

Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The south east region of the TUC and transport union RMT recently hosted a new interpretation of the famous play by Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, writes Bill Mullins.

Llanelli railway riots 1911

“Workers of the world unite”: This month commemorates the centenary of the Llanelli Railway Riots in Wales when railway workers participating in a national rail strike, along with the local community, faced the guns and bayonets of Churchill’s troops…