Socialist Party news and analysis
As BAE threatens cuts… Fight for Jobs!
BAE Systems intends to cut 3,000 of its 40,000 UK jobs. Apparently this is necessary for BAE to “ensure its long-term future”, while the futures of the estimated 5,700 affected workers look bleak…
BAE workers protest at the Tory party conference, photo by Paul Mattsson
Miliband’s fruitless dreams of a ‘better capitalism’
Ed Miliband said at Labour Party conference that we would have to ‘live within our means’ and that “Most of the cuts implemented by the Con-Dems will not be reversed”
Labour Party conference – No way forward given by ‘reclaim Labour’ speakers
Tory conference farce – Carry on cutting!
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Manchester: Thousands say no to cuts
Tories gathering for conference faced large demonstration: 35,000 people travelled to Manchester on 2nd October to march against the anti-working class policies of the Tories
Glasgow: Prepare for 30 November strike
London union leaders call for electoral challenge
In July, the London Transport regional council of the transport union RMT unanimously passed a resolution stating that the 2012 elections for the Greater London Assembly (GLA) and mayor present an opportunity for a trade union based anti-cuts challenge
Poplar and Liverpool: ‘If you fight, you can win’
Socialist Party feature
What is happening to the democratic and civil liberties won over generations by working class people? In Britain, governments have used some of the repressive methods of totalitarian states
Police on student demonstration – hundreds of protesters have been injured by police violence, photo Senan
Socialist Party workplace news
North-west construction electricians meet
Getting organised for action: Up to 100 construction electricians from across the north and north-west met in Manchester on 1 October to organise in defence of pay and conditions, writes Hugh Caffrey.
The sixth London protest, photo Paul Mattsson
Construction electricians invade Kings Cross station
Campaigners face bullying and harassment: Waltham Forest council in east London has recently spent £18 million on private consultants and agency staff
Socialist Party youth and students
Extract from Jarrow Marchers Blog: Day 1 & 2
Solidarity, support and blisters: I’m writing this at one in the morning in a kitchen in St Clare’s in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham…
Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow March 2011 launch demonstration in Jarrow, photo Paul Mattsson
Danger: young people’s futures at risk
Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow March 2011 launch demonstration in Jarrow, photo Paul Mattsson
Students join the socialists as fury grows over cuts and fees
Socialist Students has had an excellent response at this year’s freshers fairs. Fury is the most frequently displayed emotion whenever the government or bankers are mentioned
Socialist Party review
Book review: Jacqui Berry reviews ‘Chavs – The demonization of the working class’ by Owen Jones…
International socialist news and analysis
USA: Occupy Wall Street struggle spreads
Corporate greed and banks domination challenged: An anti-capitalist protest movement has sprung up in New York, occupying central plazas, inspired by the North African protests earlier in the year dubbed the ‘Arab Spring’ and similar actions in Spain, Portugal and Greece…
Irish trade unionists meet to launch Activists Network
Seventy Irish trade unionists launched the Trade Union Activists Network in Dublin on 1 October. Formed to counter decades of ‘social partnership’ in Ireland, which held down wages…
Chilean students in fifth month of protests
Socialist Party events
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