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Fighting the cuts
Tell the Con-Dem government: NO CUTS!
Support 28 March pension strike: War is declared! …or at least, the next phase in the ongoing pensions action has been called – with NUT and UCU members in the ‘post 1992 universities’ going on strike across London on 28 March.
On the 30 June 2011 pensions strike, photo by Paul Mattsson
Prepare for future struggle – build the trade union left
Unending misery – that’s what this government has in store for us. NHS chiefs have been warned they will need to find a further £20 billion in ‘savings’
Build a strategy to win on pensions
Stop the NHS sell-off – National demo now!
Stroud: Labour lets NHS down again
Stroud Against the Cuts has recently had a campaign and legal success in slowing down the privatisation of the county’s NHS through the transfer of 3,000 NHS staff and community services to a social enterprise or Community Interest Company
Socialist Party features
Capitalism isn’t working: Time to fight for socialist change
Unless you are part of the richest 1% then life under austerity is getting increasingly difficult. Peter Taaffe looks at the nature of capitalism
Marx: Profit is ‘the unpaid labour of the working class’
Fight or privatise: A tale of two councils
Socialist Party news and analysis
Budget: far from ‘all in it together’
Asked about the Con-Dem budget, Simon Hughes, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats pleaded for “a budget for the millions not the millionaires”
Pigs at the trough: Obsorne’s budget 2012 a hand out for the rich , photo Alan Hardman
Student walkout: Socialist Students show what could have been
No to workfare – fight for a genuine alternative
Cait Reilly, one of the young people forced to work for free under the existing schemes is in the process of a judicial review of the government’s workfare policies, writes Paul Callanan
Youth demand future at Dundee sham summit
Socialist Party workplace news
MMP packaging: workers still locked out
149 workers at Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) in Bootle, Merseyside have been locked out of their workplace in a dispute with management over planned redundancies
MMP Packaging workers still locked out, photo by Stillshooter
Swindon hospital workers fight bullying
Construction workers demand better pay and conditions
Mick Dooley, a prominent activist in the battle to stop the big building companies imposing a 35% pay cut, has been confirmed as a candidate for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the London Assembly elections.
International socialist news and analysis
Charity’s pro-US foreign policy is against interests of Africa’s poor: Seldom before has an idea spread so quickly across the world. Within days tens of millions watched Invisible Children’s ‘KONY 2012’ video as it went viral across the internet and social media
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished
Reviews and readers’ comments
Smear campaign on Hillsborough?
Football rivalry is common in Liverpool between Liverpool and Everton supporters, writes John Cosgrove.
