Socialist Party news and analysis
UK Uncut protest against banks and to save the NHS in Cardiff, photo Socialist Party Wales
Glencore – Profiting from global hunger
New attacks on women’s sexual and reproductive rights
Picket of Tory MP Ann Widdecombe’s anti-abortion meeting 6 February 2008, photo Paul Mattsson
Disabled protester – “inadvertently struck with a police baton”
Disabled activists are outraged by the Metropolitan Police’s directorate of professional standards decision to reject a complaint by Jody McIntyre after he was batoned and deliberately pulled out of his wheelchair twice during a demonstration against Con-Dem tuition fees rises last December
Shoesmith sacking – social work under growing pressure
Musician, poet and writer Gil Scott-Heron died on 27 May. He was well respected for his contribution to the arts and his influential role in radical politics in America in the 1970s
International socialist news and analysis
Egypt and Tunisia: Revolutions at the crossroads
Starting in Tunisia, a wave of revolutions and protests swept the Middle East and North Africa followed Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act of self-immolation against poverty and oppression…
Greece: unite the struggles and bring down the government
National Shop Stewards Network
Strike – to defend jobs and pensions
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference will meet on Saturday 11 June in Camden, London, to help take forward the battle against all cuts and attacks on workers’ pay, pensions and conditions being made by the government, councils and big businesses
Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party NHS campaigning
Government plans for the NHS: Privatisation and world class profits!
A review of The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player: Some on the political left believe that, despite all its betrayals, Labour still retains more of a commitment to the NHS than the Tories, writes Roger Davey, Unison health service group executive, personal capacity.
Marching against NHS cuts and privatisation – protest by Royal College of Nurses (RCN) in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
“Frontline first” a dangerous tactic – unity is the key
The Conservatives have pledged to protect “frontline” NHS services and cut back on bureaucracy. In reality, this is another broken promise. They have no intention of saving even frontline staff.
Cardiff NHS protest against Topshop tax dodger
Topshop in Cardiff city centre was occupied on Saturday 28 May in protest at cuts to the NHS taking place while billionaire business people like Topshop’s owner Sir Phillip Green avoid paying tax
Cardiff protest, photo Socialist Party Wales
Demonstration against closure of day centre in Llandeilo
Photo Socialist Party Wales
Socialist Party workplace news
Southampton – council workers’ strike spreads
Southampton refuse workers finished their first strike action against cuts to pay, jobs and services on 27 May, writes Nick Chaffey.
Southampton council workers lobby their council, photo Nick Chaffey
Saltend construction workers’ struggle ends
Disabled people are in the front line of the government’s attacks on the welfare state. The government has made a critical error
Lewisham teachers – Action threat spells victory
Newcastle East Coast rail call centre – Save jobs!
Socialist history
18 years since Stephen Lawrence murder
We still need to fight racism… and cuts: Two men are now to stand trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who had ambitions to become an architect but was killed in a vicious racist attack in 1993, writes Onay Kasab.
Youth against Racism in Europe protest against the BNP in 1993, photo by The Socialist
Youth fight for jobs and education
Coventry action against academies grows
School students and teachers protest against academies at Tile Hill Wood school in Coventry, photo Coventry Socialist Party
Yorkshire meetings make Jarrow plans
Socialist Party feature
Lib Dems – a party rooted in capitalism
Veneer of social reformism stripped away by Coalition attacks on the working class: Despite Liberal Democratic leader Nick Clegg’s hopes, anger at his party and at Lib Dem cabinet ministers has grown massively since the 2010 general election, writes Jim Thomson.
Sheffield protest against the Liberal Democrats – Unison campaign for jobs and services, photo Sheffield Socialist Party