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Fighting the cuts
Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy… : The misery facing the Greek people is summed up by the human tragedy of hundreds of families giving up their children because they can no longer afford to feed them
Part of the PCS contingent on the massive 26 March TUC demonstration, photo Senan
Building the battle for pensions
Update: pensions battle – Build for the biggest possible action on 28 March
Young Socialist Party members prepare: On Saturday 11 February the National Union of Students (NUS) announced the date for a walk out against education cuts
International socialist news and analysis
Greece erupts as government and ‘Troika’ impose new savage cuts
Workers and left parties must organise serious campaign to kick out the government: On Sunday 12 February the Greek parliament voted for the new austerity cuts demanded by the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank – the ‘Troika’…
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI, on massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
Syria: Anti-regime protesters facing ferocious repression
Kazakhstan: Workers’ leaders under threat of abduction or arrest
Urgent protests needed: Esenbek Ukteshbaev, president of the Kazakhstan Trade Union, ‘Zhanartu’ (‘Renaissance’), and vice-president, Ainur Kurmanov have been on an extended visit in Moscow as a result of threats to their lives from the Nazarbayev dictatorship in Kazakhstan
Socialist Party review
Another attempt to assassinate the legacy of Leon Trotsky?
Condemnation of Leon Trotsky is well-trodden ground for so-called biographer Robert Service. Service was condemned by The American Historical Review (June 2011), which considered his ‘biography’ of Trotsky
Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931
NHS campaigning
Lansley’s Bill can be stopped by a mass movement uniting health workers, trade unions and community campaigns, with a national Saturday demonstration to fire the signal that the battle has started, writes Jon Dale
On the ‘Save the NHS’ march, 3 November 2007 , photo Paul Mattsson
Llanelli marches to save hospital
Socialist Party news and analysis
More murky doings in Murdochland
Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist history
Forty years ago today, a miners’ strike for a fairer pay system saw some of the biggest demonstrations of workers’ power since World War Two. Heath’s government was trying to enforce a pay restraint policy in the teeth of rising inflation, writes Bill Mullins
Socialist Party workplace news
Stagecoach South Yorkshire – management getting desperate
It was -15C. Bus drivers started picketing in Rotherham at 4.30am, on their 11th strike day
NSSN conference: details of 6th annual conference
Readers’ comments
Should socialists support the Green Party?
In issue 703 of the Socialist, Socialist Party member Alec Price criticised the Green Party’s claim to be an anti-cuts alternative to New Labour. Below we carry the correspondence that has followed
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Socialist councillor leads fight to restore EMA
Coventry Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist is campaigning against education cuts and tuition fees
Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor. addresses Socialism 2011, photo Senan
