Archive for October 2010
4 October 2010
Solid support for RMT tube strike
RMT picket line
Socialist Party members got a warm reception at the RMT Loughton picket, Stuart Walker - East 15 Socialist Students, reports.
5 October 2010
Leicestershire Against the Cuts launched
Almost 100 people turned up to the launch meeting of Leicestershire Against the Cuts at the end of September...
5 October 2010
Coventry against the Cuts public rally
Around 120 people packed into the first public rally of the Coventry against the Cuts campaign.
6 October 2010
Spain: workers demonstrate their strength
Ten million took part in a general strike in Spain 29 September 2010 that shook Spanish capitalism , photo Sarah Wrack
On 29 September the general strike marked the entrance of the Spanish working class onto the stage of struggle with all its weight and power...
6 October 2010
National conference called against cuts in jobs and services
After a very successful TUC lobby and the first national demo against cuts in Manchester just a few weeks ago, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) steering committee has taken a unanimous decision to follow up with a national conference to stop cuts to jobs and services, writes Linda Taaffe, secretary NSSN.
6 October 2010
Time to strengthen RMT's fighting leadership
At the end of October, RMT members in London Transport will be voting for a new representative on the union's national Council of Executives...
6 October 2010
Unscrupulous bosses at Tyneside Safety Glass (TSG) want to drive down the pay and conditions of the workforce - but the first week of solid strike action shows that TSG workers are determined to fight this...
6 October 2010
Review: It is always a surprise when either Hollywood or Britain's film industry makes a sympathetic movie about workers who go on strike...
6 October 2010
Thousands tell Tories: 'No cuts'
Lobby of Tory Party conference, photo I Dalton
AS THE first Conservative Party delegates arrived for their 2010 conference at the ICC in Birmingham - a city whose Con-Dem council has threatened 26,000 employees with the sack unless they accept new contracts with reduced terms - thousands of trade unionists and political activists were gathering, writes Dave Griffiths.
6 October 2010
WE HEARD a lot at the New Labour conference in Manchester about the party's 'proud record' for working people...
6 October 2010
ILO predict a riot: RECESSION IN the world capitalist economy, leading to high unemployment, will trigger growing social unrest according to the United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO)...
6 October 2010
Campaigning Socialist Students win support
Nottingham: SOCIALIST STUDENTS made a great impact on Nottingham Trent University's freshers' fair. In three hours, around 200 signatures were collected in support of our campaign against the government's planned...
6 October 2010
Chávez wins majority but right-wing gains ground
Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, on a visit to Britain, photo Paul Mattsson
ON 26 September Venezuela elected a new National Assembly (parliament). The elections, which coincided with elections to the Latin American parliament, took place in a deeply polarised political environment...
6 October 2010
Labour councillor's contempt for care centre users
On 30 September Ealing Labour councillor and adult social services portfolio holder Jasbir Anand was invited to the Albert Dane Centre (ADC), writes Lydia Dalton, Ealing Unison children and adult services convenor (personal capacity).
6 October 2010
NHS workers and parents are fighting the planned November closure of the Buttercups NHS Nursery at the North Staffordshire Hospital, writes Andy Bentley Stoke Socialist Party.
6 October 2010
Bristol MPs fail to answer young workers' anger at PCS debate
On 30 September PCS civil service union young members in the South West held a question time event about cuts in the public sector as part of a young workers' week, writes Mike Wheeler, PCS young members' network (personal capacity).
6 October 2010
Meetings and protests against the cuts
Coventry: Around 120 people packed into the first public rally of the Coventry Against the Cuts campaign...
6 October 2010
Warning: this government could seriously damage your safety
Reader's comment: Lord David Young's report on reforming health and safety laws is due to be released as The Socialist goes to press...
6 October 2010
Leicester: action needed against EDL
The English Defence League (EDL) is coming to Leicester on 9 October to attempt to stir up division in one of the most culturally and racially diverse cities in Britain, writes Steve Score, Leicester Socialist Party.
6 October 2010
Nuneaton: community must organise against racism
Anti-EDL campaigners in Nuneaton, photo Bob Smith
Recently in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, there has been a flurry of activity by the racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL), writes Tom Sidwell, secretary Nuneaton Anti-Fascist Action and Nuneaton Socialist Party.
6 October 2010
Campaign defeats BNP in Stroud
The far-right, racist British National Party (BNP) has retreated from its plans to set up a national propaganda HQ (media centre) in Stroud...
6 October 2010
YFJ and PCS unite against cuts in Leeds
On 2 October, 30 trade unionists and anti-cuts activists gathered outside Leeds Art Gallery to highlight how the cuts of both the Con-Dem coalition government and local Labour councils (in Leeds and Kirklees in particular) are affecting young people, writes Iain Dalton, Yorkshire YFJ.
6 October 2010
Ireland: a socialist alternative to the crisis
On the same day that the Irish government announced a further rescue package of €35 billion for Anglo Irish Bank, finance minister, Brian Lenihan, declared that the projected cuts of €3 billion in the December budget will have to be increased substantially...
6 October 2010
No excuses for not fighting cuts
Socialist-led Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 led to mass demonstrations and thousands of new council houses built, photo Dave Sinclair
IN THE mid-1980s Liverpool Labour council, under the political influence of the Militant (forerunner of the Socialist Party) and the pressure of a mass working class movement, successfully led a campaign to secure extra resources for the city's urban renewal programme from a hostile Tory government...
6 October 2010
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
Boris's bluster doesn't impress: On 3 and 4 October members of transport unions RMT and TSSA working for London Underground, went on strike to defend jobs. Socialist Party members report from the picket lines.
6 October 2010
Portuguese workers win the promise of a general strike
Tens of thousands of Portuguese workers, from both public and private sectors, demonstrated on the streets of the main cities of Lisbon and Porto - 50,000 people in the capital, and 20,000 in Porto, Socialismo Revolucionário, (CWI in Portugal) reporters write.
6 October 2010
Socialism 2010 - a weekend of discussion and debate
Hosted by the Socialist Party
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 November
Rally speakers include:
- Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Ireland
- Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary
- Cindy Sheehan, US anti-war activist
- Andros Payiatsos, general secretary, CWI Greece
- Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
6 October 2010
Socialist Students in Exeter did a debt-o-meter on the Campaign to Defeat Fees day of action, photo Jim THomsom
Students will this week find out what future Lord Browne has in store for them. The multi-millionaire Baron of Madingley (the beneficiary of an Oxbridge education himself) has for almost a year been heading an 'independent' review into higher education funding and student finance.
6 October 2010
Internationalism against austerity: 100,000 demonstrate in Belgium
100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, part of a European-wide day of action, called by the European Trade Union Confederation on 29 September 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
HUNDREDS OF activists from across the British trade union movement travelled to Brussels to march against the Europe-wide cuts agenda, writes Nicholas Parker.
6 October 2010
Why you should come to Socialism 2010
Joe Higgins, the Irish Socialist Party's MEP, speaking at central SYRIZA rally in Athens, Greece
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Ireland, explains why Socialism 2010 is an important event for all who oppose the brutal austerity cuts...
6 October 2010
National Shop Stewards Network and the struggle against Con-Dem attacks
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
As the day nears - 20 October - when the details of the Con-Dem government's next attacks on the working class are revealed, so also does discussion within the labour movement intensify on how best to resist them...
6 October 2010
Protests on October 23 to fight the government's spending review axe
London Assemble 11am, RMT HQ, 39 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD. Cardiff, Manchester, Bristol ...
6 October 2010
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
The Tory and Lib-Dem coalition government has struck at the very heart of the welfare state. The Conservatives' conference has issued a battle cry that will send shivers down the spines of working class working class people.
Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party, writes.
7 October 2010
Fight the cuts: how we beat the Tories last time!
Hannah Sell speaking on Fight the Cuts: How we beat the Tories last time
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, spoke at a London Socialist Party joint meeting with Socialist Students on Wednesday 6th October at the University of London union in central London...
7 October 2010
Trade unionists denounce Hutton's attacks on public sector workers' pensions
John McInally, PCS, photo Paul Mattsson
Former Labour minister Lord Hutton, on a comfortable MP's pension, has released an interim report on his investigation into public sector pensions.
- "Another attempt to make working people pay for the greed of the bankers and big business" - John McInally, Vice president, Public and Commercial Services union
12 October 2010
Browne Review spells end of university access for less well off
Socialist Students protest
Coalition closes 'one avenue after another' for an entire generation: Socialist Students and Youth Fight for Jobs condemned the plans under discussion to raise or possibly abolish the cap on university fees...
13 October 2010
Protest against the Con-Dem's comprehensive cuts on 23 October
London, Cardiff, Manchester, Bristol, Portsmouth...
13 October 2010
14 October 2010
London firefighters vote by large majority to strike
FBU protest
London's firefighters have voted overwhelmingly for strike action - 79% voted in favour of strike action on a turnout of 79%, writes Steve White, Poplar Fire Brigades Union rep.
14 October 2010
PCS meeting
PCS members were shocked on 8 October by the announcement that Newport Passport office would close next year, writes Katrine Williams, PCS Wales chair.
14 October 2010
Leeds university protest following Browne Review
Around 70 students from Leeds university came out to protest following the announcement of the conclusions of the Browne Review...
14 October 2010
PCS fights to defend jobs and pensions
PCS's National Executive Committee (NEC) has rejected a "final offer" on the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS) from the Tory/Liberal government, writes John McInally, vice-president PCS personal capacity.
14 October 2010
Con-Dem attacks will lead to social cleansing
Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi
THE CON-Dem government and their anti-working class press would have us believe that the country is full of lazy, oversized families living the high life off benefits worth tens of thousands of pounds a year, writes North London health worker.
14 October 2010
Children - a privilege for the rich?
ON NEWSNIGHT, multi-millionaire culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, unleashed a vicious attack saying the state "shouldn't support" large families...
14 October 2010
PCS DWP civil servants in Leicester during recent strike action, photo Leicester Socialist Party
Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been given management's pay offer for this year's pay increase, writes Katrine Williams, PCS DWP vice president, personal capacity.
14 October 2010
Greenwich council threatens mass sackings
Labour controlled Greenwich council in south London has sent letters to 8,000 staff threatening mass sackings unless unions agree to pay cuts, writes Paul Callanan.
14 October 2010
Unison elections: Elections for seats on Unison's national executive committee close on 22 October. Socialist Party members Hugo Pierre and John Malcolm are standing for the local government male seat and the northern...
14 October 2010
The general strike: Important tool of the working class
100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
All across Europe workers and young people face the austerity axe. And all across Europe there is a fight to defend jobs and services against governments who are determined to do the bidding of big business...
14 October 2010
The Socialism event on 6-7 November is a must for every trade unionist, socialist and campaigner. It is a brilliant opportunity to discuss socialist ideas in a great atmosphere. There are sessions to interest...
14 October 2010
In this feature Socialist Party general secretary PETER TAAFFE answers important questions raised by Joe Foster on prices and wages. Joe writes:...
14 October 2010
When they say fees will rise... we fight back and organise!
Student tuition fees: what Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students say
14 October 2010
LEILA GALLOWAY, a parent of two children at Tidemill primary school in Deptford, south London, is leading a campaign to stop Tidemill becoming an academy school, free from local authority control, writes Leila spoke to The Socialist:.
14 October 2010
School students strike in Dover
A school student strike took place this week in an academy in Dover. The school has just been turned into an academy with sponsorship from Canterbury Christ Church University, two grammar schools and Kent...
14 October 2010
A LARGE and angry audience of local residents packed a meeting hall in Forest Gate, east London, on 6 October to quiz the police and City of London Corporation trustees over plans to build a 'temporary' police station on Wanstead Flats to serve the 2012 Olympic Games, writes Dave Carr, East London Socialist Party.
14 October 2010
Stalinism and capitalism - a toxic brew in Hungary
NEARLY 700 million litres of toxic red sludge poured from a ruptured industrial reservoir flooding three villages and polluting rivers in Hungary...
14 October 2010
TUC must name the date for strike action
Editorial THIS YEAR'S Tory conference provided a foretaste of what this government of millionaires is planning for us in the comprehensive spending review, which will be announced on 20 October...
14 October 2010
Labour shadows show: We need a new workers' party!
WHAT DO the results of the election to Labour's Shadow Cabinet tell us about the direction, or even likelihood, of Ed Miliband's party leading a fightback against the coalition cuts?, writes Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist, Chair, Campaign for a New Workers' Party.
14 October 2010
Community organises to resist EDL thugs
English Defence League supporter (centre bottom). The EDL met a massive counter-demonstration in Leicester, photo Paul Mattsson
HUNDREDS, EVEN thousands, of local people turned out to defend their community in Leicester when the hooligan English Defence League (EDL) came to stir up racism, writes Steve Score.
19 October 2010
Threats and bullying from London Fire Brigade: trade union forced to respond with action
Firebrigades Union demonstration, photo Suzanne Beishon
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) informed the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) on 11 August 2010 that it was to commence the legal process to carry out mass sackings of 5,557 uniformed firefighters and 41 non-operational firefighters if they did not accept that management are to rip up nationally agreed contracts of employment, Ian Leahair, FBU Executive Council Member for London, writes.
20 October 2010
Socialism 2010: ideas to fight the cuts
Socialism 2010 Programme
If you're opposed to the Con-Dem cabinet of millionaires making working class people pay for the bankers' bailouts then you should attend Socialism 2010, writes Sean Figg.
20 October 2010
NHS: Not safe in Con-Dem hands
Marching to defend the NHS
THE FUNDING crisis facing the NHS is even now becoming apparent. The Guardian reported on 13 October that the South West Essex primary care trust (PCT) has overspent by £52 million, writes Leigh Cartwright.
20 October 2010
Coventry jobs slaughter - unions must fight back
Socialist Pary councillor Dave Neillist joins Stoke Aldermoor residents to lobby Coventry council to save their local council neighbourhood management one stop service office., photo Coventry Socialist Party
COVENTRY COUNCIL workers have just received a devastating announcement. In an email, the chief executive Martin '£180,000 a year' Reeves announced that 1,000 posts are to go, plus another 213 grant...
20 October 2010
Government slams door shut on social housing
SPENDING CUTS and proposals to end security for council tenants would mean the end of social housing as it has been known in Britain, writes Paul Kershaw.
20 October 2010
Osborne mugs poor to pay for rich
HAVING MUGGED the public with £83 billion of cuts in public spending (to plug the budget deficit caused by bailing out the failed banking system), millionaire chancellor George Osborne has, hypocritically, rounded on alleged benefit fraudsters, accusing them of 'mugging taxpayers'...
20 October 2010
UNIVERSITY BOSSES are resorting to blackmail in order to make sure the government accepts (at the very least) the hefty tuition fees rises recommended by the Browne Review...
20 October 2010
Mass action needed to defeat fees and cuts
Over 100 students and workers at Warwick university came to an emergency protest on the steps of the university piazza, photo Warwick Socialist Students
Browne Review: threat of a two-tier education system: Lord Browne has recommended that universities be free to charge unlimited tuition fees from 2012. This is a door slammed firmly in the face of those looking to education...
20 October 2010
World economy heading for 'double-dip' recession
THE WORLD economy grew by only 2.8% in 2008 and shrank, for the first time for over 65 years, by 0.6% in 2009, while the economies of the advanced capitalist countries shrank by 3.2% on average, writes Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden).
20 October 2010
RMT executive election: Support Lewis Peacock
Socialist Party member Lewis Peacock is standing for election to the transport union RMT's national executive, the Council of Executives...
20 October 2010
Unite general secretary election: The ballot papers for the election of the new general secretary of Unite will be distributed in the week beginning 25 October...
20 October 2010
Trade Unionists lobbying parliament - trying to persuade at least 100 MPs to turn up at John McDonnell's Lawful Industrial Action bill's second reading, to prevent the Tories crushing it, photo by Suzanne Beishon
Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill 2010: On 22 October, two days after the government announces its savage public spending cuts, left Labour MP John McDonnell's Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill has its second reading, writes Jim Horton.
20 October 2010
Days of Hope by Jim Allen, reviewed by Leigh Cartwright
Reviews: AT A car boot sale I bought (for 20p!) a book called Days of Hope by Jim Allen. The book, which can be found second-hand on the internet, was the fictional story (but historically accurate) of a group...
20 October 2010
Enter Shikari - Common Dreads (album 2009)
AT FIRST glance you wouldn't expect Enter Shikari's second album to be a hotbed of radicalism. But the first track presents you with a call to arms against a 'heedless and harrowing future' of 'factories...
20 October 2010
Liverpool FC: "They don't care about fans!"
Readers' comment: "THEY ONLY care about money, they don't care about fans, Liverpool Football Club is in the wrong hands!" sang Liverpool FC fans gathered outside London's Royal Courts of Justice...
20 October 2010
Leeds university - protest following Browne review
Around 70 students from Leeds university came out to protest following the announcement of the conclusions of the Browne Review...
20 October 2010
The fight back begins: reports of protests against the cuts
Rally at Leeds City Square
If the government manages to implement the announcements in the Comprehensive Spending Review it will mean the comprehensive destruction of the living standards of the majority of the population...
20 October 2010
TUC get off your knees - organise action now!
Fight ALL Cuts in Jobs and Services: Today the TUC general council met against the background of Osborne announcing the wholesale slaughter of our public services.
It agreed to call a national demonstration for 26 March, 2011 - five months after the axe has fallen! This is far too little, far too late.
20 October 2010
Protest, strike, fightback! French workers and youth challenge cuts
French workers demonstrate in Brussels for the European day of action, 29 September 2010, photo by Paul Mattsson
The mobilisation of the French working class has now reached a crucial stage. Strikes and mass demonstrations on 19 October, according to the CGT trade union confederation, again brought a staggering 3.5...
20 October 2010
Build coordinated action to stop cuts
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
Never has there been so much at stake for millions of working people and many middle class people, as this government prepares its spending cuts...
20 October 2010
Firefighters demonstrate against the threat of mass sackings, photo Suzanne Beishon
Three days after the announcement of the government's savage spending cuts London's firefighters will be on strike, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party.
London firefighters have answered their bullying bosses with a massive vote for strike action.
20 October 2010
Police try to stifle Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition protest
It wasn't a nice sight - the spectacle of two Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) election candidates, one apparently having his collar felt and the other being dragged away by the police on the eve of poll of the last general and local council elections, writes Craig Johnston, RMT national executive member.
20 October 2010
Strike forces concessions at Tyneside Safety Glass
Unite members on strike on the picket line at Tyneside safety Glass, photo Elaine Brunskill
Tyneside Safety Glass (TSG) workers have suspended a further two weeks of strike action as factory bosses have made concessions...
20 October 2010
Huge demo against passport office closure in Newport
Newport Demo to save the Passport Office: John McInally, Vice president, Public and Commercial Services union, with the IPS group banner , photo Socialist Party Wales
Newport fights the cuts: Everyone in Newport has been incensed by the decision to close the Passport Office here. In just a few days the whole community mobilised and a good 1,000 people came on the noisy demonstration around...
20 October 2010
Warwick university - students condemn escalation of fees
Over 100 students and workers at Warwick university came to an emergency protest on the steps of the university piazza
Over 100 students and workers at Warwick university came to an emergency protest on the steps of the university piazza, called by Socialist Students, writes Lenny Shail, Warwick Socialist Students.
20 October 2010
Fight all cuts in jobs and services
Unite members on strike to save a Coventry youth centre, photo Clive Dunkley
TUC must organise action:
* Mass national demo
* 24-hour public sector general strike
As the first steps in the building of a mass campaign
We won't pay for the bosses' crisis!
24 October 2010
Sheffield anti-cuts demonstration, 23 October
300 students and trade unionists marched down from Sheffield university to swell the size of the Yorkshire and Humber TUC rally outside Sheffield town hall to getting on for 1,000 protesters...
24 October 2010
Manchester protest
Up to 100 trade unionists and community campaigners rallied in St Peter's Square on 23 October, organised by the Shop Stewards Network...
24 October 2010
Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts
Jointly organised demonstration of FBU, RMT, PCS and other unions
24 October 2010
Successful NSSN lobby called for a one day public sector strike
25 October 2010
Cardiff: Anti-cuts march and rally on 23 October
Cardiff demo
Workers in Wales were buoyed up by seeing 600 trade unionists marching through Cardiff city centre and making it clear that we would stand up and fight any cuts in Wales, writes Katrine Williams, PCS Wales Chair.
25 October 2010
Anti-cuts demo a resounding success in York
York held its first anti-cuts demonstration on Saturday 23 October with a significant and very visible presence by the newly-formed York branch of the Socialist Party...
25 October 2010
A major trial of strength between the classes
Demonstrations in France against attacks on pension rights, photo Judy Beishon
Millions of workers and youth want an end to the Sarkozy 'dictatorship'.
Analysis and report from Clare Doyle (CWI Secretariat) recently in Paris and Rouen, discussing with members of Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI France)
25 October 2010
20,000 march against government savagery in Edinburgh
Edinburgh demo
There was an emphatic response to the savagery of the Con-Dem spending cuts on Saturday in Edinburgh...
27 October 2010
Northern Ireland: build a new party
Thousands of workers took to the streets of Belfast on 23 October in probably the largest non-sectarian demonstration in Northern Ireland since the anti-war movement, writes Daniel Waldron, Socialist Party Belfast.
27 October 2010
Birmingham protest against university fees and cuts!: Assemble 12 noon, Victoria Park, London Road, Leicester - near the cafe...
27 October 2010
Socialism 2010: Weekend of discussion and debate 6-7 November
Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union RMT, addresses Socialism 2009, photo Rob Emery
Socialism 2010 is the weekend to debate how we can fight back aginst cuts, war and environmental destruction, and debate how a socialist alternative can be built...
27 October 2010
Victory to London firefighters!
100 striking FBU firefighters led the London October 23rd trade union led demonstration against the cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
London firefighters were on strike for eight hours on 23 October, against changes in shift patterns which will pave the way for cuts, writes Paula Mitchell.
27 October 2010
BA bosses try to control union
The latest offer by British Airways management to cabin crew aimed at resolving this long running dispute was released on 20 October, writes Neil Cafferky.
27 October 2010
THE CON-Dem government's public sector spending review is disastrous for local government, with 28% spending cuts in local authority budgets, (real terms), over four years - more than double the 3% annual cuts previously demanded by the New Labour government, writes By a Unison local government worker.
27 October 2010
Unite general secretary election: Right wing candidate on another planet
Backed by Murdoch's press and somehow able to fund full-page adverts in newspapers, it's not surprising that Les Bayliss, right-wing candidate for Unite general secretary, condemns strike action, particularly that of the BA cabin crew recently, writes Kevin Parslow.
27 October 2010
Housing cuts will mean more evictions and social cleansing
A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill
CHANCELLOR George Osborne's spending review represents a nightmare for working class people. His announcement that housing benefit would be restricted to paying for a room rather than a flat for people...
27 October 2010
Axeman Osborne slashes disabled people's benefits
WHEN GEORGE Osborne announced £11 billion cuts to welfare spending in June's budget, disabled people and their families were shocked...
27 October 2010
Government bludgeons workers' pensions
THE POLICIES announced by the Con-Dem government amount to a massive attack on the pensions of all workers, writes Rob Williams, PCS union, national executive.
27 October 2010
TV review: A worker in Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and PCS union member comments on the recent Channel 4 Dispatches programme...
27 October 2010
WORK AND Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith (IDS) wants to blame the "feckless" unemployed for mass unemployment in the south Wales valleys, writes Dave Reid, Cardiff.
27 October 2010
Bolton: Police brutality exposed
ON 20 October Alan Clough, a retired corporation gardener from Bury and Unison member, was due in Bolton Magistrates' Court charged with assaulting a police officer during the rally against the far right English Defence League in Bolton in March, writes Paul Gerrard, Bury NUT.
27 October 2010
The US army logs released by WikiLeaks paint a brutal picture of the torturing and killing of innocent Iraqi civilians in a war fought to boost oil profits and defend western power and prestige, writes Keith Whitehead.
27 October 2010
Organise to stop education cuts!
Sheffield Socialist Students protesting outside deputy prime minister Nick Clegg's constituency office on 20 October 2010, photo Sheffield Socialist Students
Urgent action needed as EMA scrapped: The government definitely Con-Dem-ed young people with the cuts package in the Comprehensive Spending Review!, writes Jethro Waldron, College student, Nottingham.
27 October 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students day of action
Goldsmiths University: The Comprehensive Spending Review on 20 October announced cuts that will be detrimental to the future of young people across the country...
27 October 2010
Step forward for TUC youth unemployment demo
In September, the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) voted overwhelmingly in favour of a demonstration against youth unemployment before the end of the year, writes Ben Robinson, Youth Fight for Jobs chair.
27 October 2010
Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Suzanne Beishon
On Wednesday 20 October gasps of anguish and shock could be heard as workers and young people realised just how cruel the Con-Dem cuts would be...
27 October 2010
Police attack Bristol demonstration
Two thousand people from across Bristol protested on 23 October against the Con-Dem government's latest cuts, writes Frankie Langeland, Bristol Youth Fight for Jobs.
27 October 2010
Wave of protests against Con-Dem cuts
Sheffield, Lincoln, Wrexham, Manchester, York: Three hundred students and trade unionists marched from Sheffield University on 23 October to swell the size of the Yorkshire and Humber TUC rally outside Sheffield town hall to 1,000 protesters, reports Alistair Tice...
27 October 2010
Mass action urgent against programme for poverty
Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
So brutal, so vicious are the £81 billion cuts announced by George Osborne on 'Axe Wednesday' that nothing short of action of mass dimensions by the organised might of the labour movement is acceptable, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
27 October 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs conference - 4 December
Organise the fightback:
Socialist Students conference - 5 December
Both start 10am at
University College London, Christopher Ingold Auditorium, Gower Street, London,WC1E 6BT
Nearest Tube: Euston Square/ Warren Street
28 October 2010
Back the PCS's fight for a national demo in 2010
Build the anti-cuts movement
The PCS NEC has published it's response to the Comprehensive Spending Review. They express their determination to call a national demo against cuts before Christmas.
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