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The Socialist issue 690

19 October 2011

Fighting for our future

2011 Back issues


The Socialist issue 690

Socialist Party news and analysis

spot15 October: day of intercontinental resistance

Anti-capitalist protest outside St Pauls in London following the Wall Street protests - We are the 99%, photo Paul Mattsson

Anti-capitalist protest outside St Pauls in London following the Wall Street protests – We are the 99%, photo Paul Mattsson


spotScandal reveals corrupt influence of big business on government

spotThe Hardest Hit protests

spotRocketing rents leave tenants facing eviction

spotFast news

Socialism 2011

spotCome to Socialism 2011

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Socialism 2011

Socialism 2011


What we think

spotMass movement needed to save our NHS

Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation , photo Paul Mattsson

Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation , photo Paul Mattsson


Socialist Party workplace news

spotSupport Remploy workers

On 14 October, over 40 workers from the Remploy factories in Porth, Abertillery and Aberdare attended a public meeting along with 20 supporters to build the campaign to fight the government’s closure programme.

Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Bob Severn

Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Bob Severn


spotConstruction electricians march on Blackfriars

Electricians protesting on 12.10.11 near the Tate Modern, London, Rob Williams


spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist Party youth and students

spotWe are the 99% – Fighting for our future

“As an unemployed prospective nursing student who can see the NHS being cut back and privatised to the point of being unrecognisable, I see the Jarrow march as an important campaign”

Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow March 2011 launch demonstration in Jarrow, photo Paul Mattsson

Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow March 2011 launch demonstration in Jarrow, photo Paul Mattsson


spotAnti-union, low paying, bullying bosses

spotBirmingham youth service ravaged by cuts

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotNot guilty: Jury rejects the politically motivated charge of ‘conspiracy’

Courtesy of British Transport Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, nine people were recently given an unwanted insight into the British justice system and the frontline of political policing

spotDale Farm – occupiers defiant

On Monday 17 October the Dale Farm residents’ legal challenges to their eviction from a former scrap yard in Essex reached the end of the line, with Justice Ouseley rejecting challenges to the legality of Basildon council’s operation, writes Dave Murray, Basildon.

spotMore London trade unionists support call for anti-cuts candidates

International socialist news and analysis

spotGreek workers strike back

Strikes must be democratically controlled by unions’ ranks: The announcement by the Greek Pasok government on 7 October of a new bill savaging the jobs and conditions of public sector workers provoked an explosion of struggles, strikes and occupations in almost every part of the public sector in Greece

Socialist Party review

spotReclaim the Game!

Book review: Coming out just days after the chief executive of Liverpool FC announced proposals to keep even more of the money from TV rights for the richest clubs in the Premier League, the timing of the latest edition of John Reid’s book Reclaim the Game could not have been sharper, writes Chris Newby, London Socialist Party.

Socialist history

spotHunger marches – When the unemployed fought back

“Why all this unrest? It seems in the rebound from the anxieties from the war, we are all trying to get something for nothing. We must not ask for the impossible” – Mayoress of Southport, 1922

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