Building for 30 November strike
We won’t pay for the bankers’ crisis!
On the National Shop Stewards Network lobby of TUC congress, 11 September 2011, photo Sujeeth
30 November – the fight of all our lives
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Gloucestershire: Rage ignites against NHS privatisation
NHS: Big Business wants a US-style private health care system, photo by Paul Mattsson
12th hour reprieve for Dale Farm
At 4pm on Monday 19 September the tense stand-off, between bailiffs on one side and Dale Farm Travellers and their supporters on the other, gave way to jubilation and relief as news arrived that the High Court had granted an injunction to stop Basildon council’s forced evictions until a further hearing
On Sunday 18 September around 800 protesters gathered in Birmingham to ‘welcome’ the Liberal Democrats for their annual conference, writes Tom Creek, Birmingham Socialist Party.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Wales mine deaths: Privatisation comes under the spotlight
The tragic deaths of four coalminers at the Gleision Colliery in the Swansea Valley, South Wales, has inevitably raised the issue of safety in the mining industry…
Private rail companies – a licence to print money
Socialist history
Poplar 1921: ‘Better to break the law than break the poor’
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the struggle of councillors in Poplar, east London, against government cuts, writes Pete Dickenson.
Socialist Party feature
2011 Labour Party conference – a debate: Can Labour be reclaimed?
The Socialist reproduces correspondence between one of its readers, Tim Hayward, and Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, on the nature of the Labour Party today and how socialist ideas can be advanced
Labour councillors’ conference lobbied by hundreds of angry trade unionists, photo Suzanne Beishon
International socialist news and analysis
Kazakhstan: Dictatorial regime threatens socialist activists
“Kurmanov to be jailed?” is the headline emblazoned on the front page of Vzglyad, a business newspaper in Kazakhstan
Opposition in Kazakhstan
Floods devastate Sindh: Crisis worsens, hundreds killed
Floods in Sindh, Pakistan, have killed more than 500 people, destroyed or damaged 1.5 million houses and swamped five million acres since late last month
Socialist Party youth and students
Don’t let the Con-Dems steal our future!
Support the Jarrow march: You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t! Whether you go the long way round through university, piling up the debt, or are forced to take the fast track to the dole queue, a future of unemployment…
Not to Cuts: for a 24 hour general strike now! – Socilaist Party and Youth Fight for Jobs on demo, photo Paul Mattsson
Save Devon youth service: “time for young people to stand up”
Jobs, homes and services, not racism
University – pay more, receive less
Youth protest movement grows in Israel
Socialist Party workplace news
Southampton council workers vote for more action
“The bin workers have led the way, it’s time we did some of it!”, was the conclusion of the 100 care workers who turned out to discuss the dispute over pay cuts and job losses at Southampton city council, writes Nick Chaffey.
Southampton on 13 June, photo Paul Mattsson
Remploy workers “will not go gently” – or at all!
Expelled from Unison for effective anti-cuts leadership
Onay Kasab addresses 200 trade unionists, community campaigners and service users marched in Greenwich borough, south London, against the local council's brutal cuts package, photo Lorraine Dardis
Bus workers force management climb-down
During August, National Express West Midlands (NXWM) bosses informed drivers at its nine garages that practically all local agreements would be torn up from 25 September
Protesting construction workers call for national strike ballot
Recognition won back – at a price
Unison has won back recognition by Plymouth city council but only after agreeing to a cuts package which inflicts devastating losses on some workers.
