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Education news & analysis
Tory education policy: ‘This is just about making cuts isn’t it?’
Interview with a trade unionist: The Con-Dem government’s agenda for education is being revealed more starkly. On top of cuts in resources and the privatisation of education, teachers are under attack
NUT protest outside the Department of Education by teachers and parents opposed to the GCSE regrading in August 2012, photo Neil Cafferky
Building the fightback in the universities
Massive student demo in London called by the NUS expresses anger against cuts, photo T.U. Senan
Suspended student union president continues fight for reinstatement
NUT activists prepare for action
Delegates from 23 different National Union of Teachers (NUT) associations met in Leeds on 29 September for the first steering committee of LANAC – the Local Associations Network Action Campaign…
NUT members on the 30 June coordinated strike action with PCS, ATL and UCU teaching unions, photo Paul Mattsson
Barnfield College, Luton: Kick private profit out of education
On 2 October, lecturers at Barnfield college in Luton were on strike against an ‘unlimited hours’ contract…
On the picket line at Barnfield College in Luton 2 October 2012, photo by Steve Glennon
Partial victory for international students at London Metropolitan
No to slave labour in universities
Postgraduate research students are increasingly being used as slave labour to cut teaching costs at universities. PhD students are being used as teachers to replace more expensive senior staff
International socialist news and analysis
Europe: Class struggle returns with a bang
Huge response to general strike in Greece: The Greek working class has put up an incredible struggle against the vicious austerity measures raining down on them…
Striking Greek workers express their opinion of the Troika – the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (EC, ECB and IMF)
South Africa: Solidarity with miners
Striking mine workers in Marikana
Algerian war of independence 1954-1962
Colonialism, national liberation and revolutionary struggle: Fifty years ago, in 1962, the ‘Algerian war’, one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial conflicts, ended with the victory of the Algerian fighters against French imperialism…
The Battle of Algiers poster montage
Socialist Party NHS campaigning
Action against Profit From Illness!
Defend the NHS – Stop Sherwood Forest cuts: A Private Finance Initiative is like a long-term, high-interest mortgage. But, in this case, when you’ve finished paying the mortgage, the house belongs to the bank!…
Death stalks NHS market reforms, photo by Paul Mattsson
South West NHS workers want action against ‘pay cartel’
Save Greater Manchester mental healthcare
Cut the Con-Dems – not our NHS!
Socialist Party workplace news
Bin workers calling indefinite strike brought results
This morning, Doncaster bin-workers, employed by Sita UK, voted 70-50 to accept a revised pay offer and return to work
Mass meeting of Sita UK bin workers in Doncaster discussing pay offer, photo Alistair Tice
Day of Action to save HMRC nurseries
Crossrail flashmob blocks London’s Oxford Street
Arts and culture workers need to fight back
“This was the most unkindest cut of all.” Mark Antony on Brutus’s murder of Julius Caesar. Which of the Con-Dems’ cuts is most unkindest is not mentioned – in part because Shakespeare died 394 years ago…
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
The fight of all our lives – For a 24-hour general strike
NSSN lobby of the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton, photo Socialist Party
Councillors must resist all Tory cuts
Thousands march for an independent Scotland
Rallying for a yes vote in Edinburgh as thousands march for an independent Scotland, photo by M Dobson
Youth Fight for Jobs Scotland, together with the PCS Young Members Network, is organising a March for Jobs and Public Services against Austerity…
Rape is No Joke campaign discussed
Socialist Party news and analysis
Scotland: Lamont throws Labour Party into crisis
On the eve of the UK Labour Party conference, Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, threw the party north of the border into a crisis after calling for an end to the “something for nothing culture” in Scotland, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.
Sickened by Labour conference? Build the anti-cuts alternative!
Council tax benefit – new and not improved
Squatting conviction paves way for rise in homelessness
Housing: homeless person, photo Paul Mattsson
