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The Socialist issue 692

2 November 2011

Bosses prosper, workers suffer... join the 30 Nov strike

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The Socialist issue 692

Building anti-cuts action

spotBosses prosper, workers suffer…

Join the 30 Nov strike: A recent survey of top 100 FTSE chief executives has shown that in the last year these bosses have received, on average, 50% pay rises

Manchester: 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions, photo Hugh Caffrey

Manchester: 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions, photo Hugh Caffrey


spot30 November and beyond

Land registry PCS workers on strike in Leicester on June 30th 2011 , photo by Jude Jackson

Land registry PCS workers on strike in Leicester on June 30th 2011 , photo by Jude Jackson


spotWorkers can show their power in 30 November strike

Behind all the events being covered in the media at the moment, looms the massive 30 November strike (N30) to defend public sector pensions

Socialist Party workplace news

spotAn interview with Mick Dooley

Defending building workers’ rights: The election for the general secretary of the building workers’ union Ucatt starts on 11 November. This election has been called after the 2009 general secretary election was found to be illegal

Mick Dooley, barred from standing for UCATT general secretary after he exposed previous election to be illegal, photo by Paul Mattsson

Mick Dooley, barred from standing for UCATT general secretary after he exposed previous election to be illegal, photo by Paul Mattsson


spot‘Virgin’ on the outrageous

spotWorkplace news in brief

Support Vik Chechi: As reported in the last issue of the Socialist, Vik Chechi, Unison branch secretary at Queen Mary university in east London has been suspended from work…

Socialist Party

spotWhy you should join the Socialist Party

The ‘Occupy’ movement has rapidly spread across the world. Support for it is huge. Why? Because of the growing understanding that we, the vast majority of humanity, are being forced to pay for a crisis that is not of our making

Half-million strong TUC demo, central London, 26 March 2011, against the government's cuts, photo Paul Mattsson

Half-million strong TUC demo, central London, 26 March 2011, against the government’s cuts, photo Paul Mattsson


spotRead the Socialist – the paper that fights all the cuts

The Socialist is a weekly paper that opposes all cuts to jobs and services. Why should we suffer cuts to pay the bankers’ deficit, while those very same bankers – many of whom financially back the Tories, continue to enjoy a life of luxury?

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotBradford joins the ‘Occupy’ movement

Following Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX), and similar protests in Glasgow, Nottingham, Bristol and Newcastle, among others, a group has established Occupy Bradford outside the city hall

Anti-capitalist protest outside St Pauls in London following the Wall Street protests - We are the 99%, photo Paul Mattsson

Anti-capitalist protest outside St Pauls in London following the Wall Street protests – We are the 99%, photo Paul Mattsson


spotJarrow marchers in solidarity action at Northampton university

Protest at Northampton university against staff cuts and closure of philosophy department, photo Sarah Sachs Eldridge


spotLiverpool council ‘does its best’ for the bankers

spotLansley closes another hospital A&E department

Government health minister, Andrew Lansley, has decided to press ahead with the closure of the A&E department and maternity services at the King George Hospital in Goodmayes, east London

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotAs the Jarrow March for Jobs arrives in London… Youth demand their future!

On 5 November thousands will join the Jarrow marchers to take their message right to the government’s door. We don’t accept that ‘there’s no money’. FTSE bosses have seen their earnings go up 49%. Billions of pounds have been committed to renew Trident nuclear weapons…

Youth Demand a Future, photo The Socialist

Youth Demand a Future, photo The Socialist


spotNo return to hire and fire – Tories consider abolishing more workers’ rights

spotFast News

International socialist news and analysis

spotTunisia: Elections mask the growing anger from below

Following the revolutionary events at the start of 2011 in Tunisia, in which the country’s youth, unemployed and workers overthrew the 24-year long dictatorship of president Ben Ali, elections have recently taken place for a constituent assembly…

spotIreland: Spectacular election result for socialists

Along with the Irish presidential election, a parliamentary by-election took place in Dublin West on 27 October which Ruth Coppinger of the Socialist Party Ireland contested…

Ruth Coppinger, Socialist Party Ireland, with the Irish Socialist Party's Joe Higgins TD, photo Socialist Party Ireland

Ruth Coppinger, Socialist Party Ireland, with the Irish Socialist Party’s Joe Higgins TD, photo Socialist Party Ireland


spotTony Blair advises Kazakhstan’s dictatorial regime

Socialist Party reviews

spotBattle for Bexley Square

Review: Salford Socialist Party member Paul Gerrard has produced a new pamphlet on Salford’s 1931 ‘Battle for Bexley Square’…

spotThe World’s Biggest Bomb

spot1985 school strike exhibit shows how young people can organise to fight back

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