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Fight against austerity
Build a 24-hour general strike
We can stop this austerity: What a fantastic moment. Chants for a 24-hour general strike rang out along the Brighton seafront, as sun-seeking families lined the route of the National Shop Stewards Network march and applauded
Build a 24-hour general strike
TUC passes general strike motion
NSSN lobby demands a 24-hour general strike
Teachers must unite against Tories
Teachers have voted overwhelmingly for action against attacks on their pay and conditions.
Socialist Party news and analysis
This is an extract of the speech at the TUC congress given by Fran Heathcote, group president of PCS in the Department for Work and Pensions, in support of a motion from the Fire Brigades Union on nationalising the banks
DWP group president Fran Heathcote (with flag) at Leeds Remploy picket line, 26.7.12, photo by K Williams
Jeremy Hunt and demo rhyming chants: You might know Jeremy Hunt as just another Tory minister to get booed at the Paralympics. But this son of an admiral, Oxford educated and related to both the Queen and fascist Oswald Mosley, is now secretary of state for health
Con-Dem housing measures – in ‘the thick of it’?
After the Paralympics… Stop the Con-Dems’ assault on disabled
With the Paralympics over, the Con-Dems’ attacks on the welfare of disabled people continue – such as the planned 20% cut in Disability Living Allowance (DLA), which many Paralympians rely on.
Cable attacks health and safety
Con-Dem economic wizard Vince Cable has outlined his plans to ditch health and safety checks. We all know tabloid jokes about health and safety regulations. However, we expect to buy food that won’t make us ill, and to work in a safe environment
‘Red tape’ bonfire puts workers at more risk
More bad news from media mogul Murdoch
International socialist news and analysis
Quebec Solidaire’s electoral gains show potential for left
On 4 September, Quebec voters elected the Parti Québecois (PQ) to lead a minority government, with Pauline Marois as the first female prime minister in Quebec’s history
Honduras: Privatised cities in the global economy
Socialist Party feature: TUSC
We need a political voice to fight austerity
Next steps in filling the vacuum: A conference of Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) supporters meets in London on 22 September…
TUSC on the 28 March 2012 NUT London strike and demonstration, photo Socialist Party
Socialist Party youth and students
Socialist students: Fighting for education
Fees tripled, EMA scrapped, youth unemployment skyrocketing. This government will leave behind a brutal legacy
Student protest 29 January 2011, photo Senan
Bristol YFJ: “We’re not lazy – we’re fighting back”
Outraged by news of the book Britannia Unchained, which brands working class people as lazy, activists from Bristol Youth Fight for Jobs picketed the surgery of Chris Skidmore, Tory MP for Kingswood and one of the right-wing authors of the book, writes Patrick McInally.
Global youth unemployment rises
Youth Fight for Jobs in action! Coming events
March for a future!: In October 1932, thousands of outdoor relief workers in Belfast went on strike to fight for their dignity
Socialist Party workplace news
Workers’ unity against brutal bosses at Cranswick Foods
Striking workers at the Cranswick Foods meat processing factory at Preston near Hull have won a temporary reprieve from brutal new working conditions
East Coast train cleaners on strike
RMT assistant secretary arrested on picket line
Fighting NHS cuts
NHS under attack – Stop the closures, stop the cuts
March to save the NHS, 17 May 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
Bromsgrove meeting opposes A&E closure
Demo against heart unit closure in Leicester
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Sheffield Socialist Party pickets strike-breaking facility
So Mr Scott, councillor responsible for waste (mis) management, how much council taxpayers’ money did you waste this weekend on your strike breaking operation?
Brent Labour: Making families homeless
Anthony Counihan and Isabel Counihan-Sanchez moved with their five children from Kilburn, London, to Ireland in 2007, to look after Anthony’s dad who was sick
Young tenants to lobby Leeds council over housing crisis
Reviews and comments
The Reunion rewrites history: the Poll Tax
BBC radio review BBC Radio 4’s The Reunion recently had a programme on the anti-poll tax movement of the late-1980s and early 1990s, Britain’s biggest mass movement of civil disobedience for centuries…
Militant: Scrap the Poll Tax, photo Dave Sinclair
The 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games showed women’s sport at its best. For Britain, there were stunning performances from Jess Ennis, Eleanor Summers and many others…
On 1 September the far-right, racist and hooligan English Defence League’s (EDL) attempt to march though the streets of Waltham Forest, north east London, was blocked by a counter-demonstration of over 3,000 people