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Bankers get bonuses… workers get the boot

City Link redundancies: It was a happy new year for City banking bosses. With their bonuses, 121 members of Goldman Sachs were paid an average of £3 million each last year. It was not such a happy new year for everyone however

2015: Deepening crisis – build the fightback!

NHS crisis: Government cuts to blame – not patients

The ongoing crisis in the National Health Service (NHS) has become the latest general election battleground for the establishment parties – with Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Ukip all pledging to make it work

Benefit sanctions ruin lives

‘Election fever’ – working class alternative needed

Come to the TUSC conference, 24 January: Yet again the Labour Party leadership has reaffirmed its commitment to Tory austerity should it come to power in May

Scottish Labour leadership: more of the same

Jim Murphy’s election as Labour’s new Scottish leader has underlined the need for the affiliated trade unions to break from Labour

Them & Us

Fat cat City bankers were paid an average of £1.3 million last year, making their pay packages worth almost 50 times the average annual wage in the UK

Greece: towards a Syriza government?

At the end of last year a constitutional crisis arose in austerity-ridden Greece with the failure to elect a president. An early general election to be called for 25 January with Syriza (a left party) leading the polls. The Socialist spoke to Andros Payiatsos from Xekinima (CWI in Greece)

The battle for Sedgehill school

No to Academies!: Parents, teachers and school students in Lewisham are angry. Labour-run Lewisham council in south London plans to dismiss the governors and headteacher at Sedgehill school and impose an ‘interim executive

Stealing school fields? It’s child’s play

School playing fields are not “surplus land”. So said close to 100 concerned parents and local residents at Parkland Primary School, Swansea, in December

Socialist Students campaigning reports

Socialist Students is a democratic campaigning organisation with groups in universities and colleges throughout the country

Appeal to readers: cash needed to fight the cuts

The Socialist Party launched its general election appeal before Christmas. We are aiming to raise £50,000 over the next few weeks to help pay for the leaflets, posters and other essential material essential

Join the Socialists to fight for rent control

“Almost nobody in the UK is opposed to rent controls for housing” read the Independent headline

Save the jobs of City Link workers

Renationalise mail distribution: Over 3,000 City Link workers are now facing the New Year dole queue with the company put into administration

Barbour workers strike against worse conditions

London bus drivers to strike for single contract

London bus drivers in the Unite union are due to strike on 13 January in demand of a standard contract across the capital’s bus network

Workplace news in brief

Socialist Party member John Reid has been elected as the London Transport member for the RMT union’s council of executives

State of the arts

Art is too often put out of ordinary people’s reach by extortionate prices and a snobbish social elite. So why is big art such big business? And what does that mean for working class artists?

Why I’m backing TUSC

I come from a strong Labour background. My uncle, Walter Harrison, was Labour MP for Wakefield. His obituaries said he would go to any lengths to delay the onslaught of a Thatcher government

Defending working class history

The People’s History Museum in Manchester has launched a campaign to plug a £200,000 funding shortfall when it loses central government funding in April, writes Tony Mulhearn