Fighting the cuts
Huge votes in defence of pensions, jobs and services: Civil servants, teachers and lecturers balloted to strike on 30 June against the Con-Dems’ attacks on public sector pensions and public services…
For a 24 hour public sector general strike now! Photo Suzanne Beishon
Workers turn up the heat in Southampton
Over 1,000 council workers, striking Medirest cleaners and others marched through Southampton on 13 June in a powerful show of solidarity against vicious council cuts and the scandalous consequence of the private sector in the NHS
Over 1,000 council workers, striking Medirest cleaners and others marched through Southampton on 13 June in a powerful show of solidarity against vicious council cuts and the scandalous consequence of the private sector in the NHS , photo Paul Mattsson
Customs & Revenue staff strike against attendance management policy
HMRC strike, Coventry
No cuts to English language classes!
Carmarthenshire council day club closure lobby
NHS news & campaigning
Tories make token changes – save the NHS
Editorial of the Socialist: As the Socialist goes to press ministers have accepted the ‘changes’ to the proposed NHS reform. These recommendations, in reality mere tokens, from the Future Forum Report, follow a ten-week consultation…
March to save the NHS 17 May 2011 , photo Paul Mattsson
Con-Dem health plans ignore patients and staff
NHS “listening events” – Flip chart ‘democracy’
About 120 people gathered at the Manchester City stadium for the NHS “Listening Event” – we seemed to be a mixture of NHS managers, health workers, voluntary sector and community activists
National Shop Stewards Network
NSSN conference – serious and inspiring preparation for battles to come
One of seven workers from the Honda car plant in Swindon commented “I wish we could have brought a coachload!”, reports Linda Taaffe, NSSN secretary, on a successful conference.
National Shop Stewards Network conference June 2011, photo Socialist Party
Socialist Party news and analysis
Fighting anti-cuts meeting in Scotland hears socialist alternative
Socialist Party Scotland hosted two successful and inspiring public meetings this week on the theme of fighting the cuts and the case for socialism. More than 70 socialists, trade unionists and young people came along to our meetings in Glasgow and Dundee. Report from Socialist Party Scotland.
Clare Daly, Socialist Party MP in Ireland
Child poverty increasing under the Con-Dems
Say no to government’s slave labour programme
Last week the government unveiled its national back-to-work scheme – the ‘Work Programme’. Yet again this Bullingdon Boys’ government wants to make the most vulnerable in society pay
Winterbourne View – fight privatisation, end abuses
The multiple accounts of abuse being investigated at Winterbourne View private hospital near Bristol are sickening and upsetting. They show the reality of privatised health and social care services
London ‘Slutwalk’ protest: Fight sexism, discrimination and cuts
Arriving in Dewsbury on the day of an English Defence League (EDL) march, I was immediately met with an incredibly tense atmosphere
To hell with for-profit education
Rising fees, scrapping EMA student payments and devastating cuts to further and higher education budgets will mean that working class young people have little to no chance of a decent education…
Socialist Party feature
Private renting: high rents, no security and bad conditions: Paul Kershaw, from Unite LE 1111 housing workers’ branch reveals the details of some of the Con-Dem attacks…
Housing campaign: Cardiff Socialist Party campaigning to stop house repossessions, photo SP Wales
Socialist Party workplace news
Tube drivers prepare to strike
RMT tube drivers on London Underground (LU) will be striking on 19-20, 27-28 June and 30 June – 1 July. This is in defence of victimised tube driver Arwyn Thomas…
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
Sheffield university strikers more determined
Unite rep Martin
Unison conference – No to pension attacks
Council workers are facing unprecedented attacks – in the form of massive job cuts and a tearing up of terms and conditions in many areas
Unison NEC elections – left retakes lost ground
International socialist news and analysis
On the eve of a tenth general strike in Greece, APOSTOLIS KASIMERIS, one of the leaders of the OASA bus workers’ union in Athens, spoke at the recent National Shop Stewards Network conference in London…
Apostolis Kasimeris of the Union of Public Transport Workers in Attica, Greece, speaking at National Shop Stewards Network Conference June 2011, photo Socialist Party