Fighting back
Capitalism IS crisis – Fight for a socialist alternative
30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions, photo Paul Mattsson
Prepare for N30 – strike and demonstrate!
Editorial of the Socialist: The strike to defend public sector pensions on 30 November (N30) represents the biggest and broadest coordinated industrial action since the 1926 general strike 85 years ago
Hardest Hit demos – thousands march
Events on 5 + 6 November
Join the Jarrow march for jobs & education – 5 November
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION: Assemble 12 noon at Embankment – march to Trafalgar Square…
Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow march 2011, London 5 November
Join the fightback – come to Socialism 2011
A weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party: Whether you have been a socialist for many years or are new to socialist ideas, Socialism 2011 has something for you, writes Steve Glennon, Socialism 2011 organiser.
Socialism 2011
Socialist Party youth and students
Coventry rally – The Jarrow march is on its way!
Over 100 young people, trade unionists and anti-cuts campaigners joined the Jarrow marchers on a demonstration in Coventry on Saturday
Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow marchers arrive in Coventry, photo by Lenny Shail
Wales takes action to defend young people
“I completely agree – these bankers getting bonuses, while they say EMA is unaffordable.” These were the words of an enthusiastic student who met Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) campaigners in Swansea on Saturday 15 October, writes Ben Golightly.
Socialist Party workplace news
Tax dodging continues while staff face cuts
Teamsters local 814 president Jason Ide and PCS members outside Sotheby’s London, 13.10.11, photo Kevin Parslow. PCS members will fight the job cuts
Oppose victimisation of trade union activist: Messages of support and complaints to management have flooded in following the shock announcement last week that Vik Chechi, the Unison branch secretary of Queen Mary University in east London, was suspended by his employer
Construction protests continue and Unite declares strike ballot (report with video)
This week’s protest at Blackfriars Balfour Beatty site began in full darkness at 6:30am this morning.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Building the fightback and building solidarity at Occupy LSX
Anti-capitalist protest outside St Pauls in London following the Wall Street protests – We are the 99%, photo Paul Mattsson
Electric support for London anti-cuts challenge
Socialist Party news and analysis
10,000 public sector jobs lost in Wales and counting
Over 10,000 public sector jobs have been lost in Wales in the last year according to accountants PwC.
Unison members in Wales protest against privatisation, photo Socialist Party Wales
The sovereign debt and eurozone crises, the Great Recession, etc, have all focussed attention on the failings of the banking sector and the greedy giant capitalist corporations
International socialist news and analysis
Where now for Libya after the downfall of Gaddafi’s regime?
Socialism Today May 2011, Behind Nato’s Libya campaign, cartoon by Suz
Euro crisis – urgent need to build a socialist alternative
Solidarity appeal: Stop Kazakh state brutality
A protest against attacks on trade unionists in Kazakhstan was held outside the Kazakhstan Business Forum in London, this morning
Socialist Party feature
Free schools – Freedom to privatise education
In September, the first 24 of the Coalition’s new ‘free schools’ opened. Tory schools minister Michael Gove claims that they will end a ‘state monopoly’ in education and give ‘freedom’ to parents…
