Archive for November 2010
1 November 2010
Hackney: One Labour councillor against cuts at successful lobby
With the full and horrific extent of the Con-Dem cuts becoming clearer by the day, Hackney residents have shown loud and clear that their communities, services and jobs will not pay the bill for the bankers' greed...
1 November 2010
Leicester: Anti-cuts protesters inspired by French strikes
On Saturday 30 October, the people of Leicester demonstrated their anger against the Con-Dem cuts to our public services...
1 November 2010
London firefighters second strike day
Firefighters speak, as all firestations picketed
1 November 2010
Portsmouth workers vow: Not one single cut!
Portsmouth anti-cuts rally
"We will not accept one single cut! We will not accept one single job loss!" That was the rallying cry in Portsmouth city centre on Saturday 30 October as over 150 trade unionists and students marched...
2 November 2010
Press release: Workers and trade unionists need to come to firefighters' aid
Ian Leahair, FBU London Regional Organiser, was hospitalised
Firefighters hospitalised in brutal strikebreaking: London firefighters picketed Southwark fire station as AssetCo driven appliances returned after the second day of strike action on 1st November...
3 November 2010
Brighton: Anti-cuts movement continues to grow
Two thousand people marched in the Brighton Stop the Cuts Coalition (BSTC) demonstration on Saturday 30 October, writes Jon Redford, South East Socialist Party.
3 November 2010
Anti-cuts movement continues to grow
Brighton Socialist Party on the anti-cuts protest in Brighton
Brighton: Two thousand people marched in the Brighton Stop the Cuts Coalition (BSTC) demonstration on Saturday 30 October...
3 November 2010
Don't destroy our sickness benefits
When the Con-Dem government announced its cuts, Steve Spreadborough of Coventry appeared on the BBC News, speaking emotionally of his fears of losing his home and more...
3 November 2010
Pickets injured: Solidarity with London firefighters
Ian Leahair, FBU London Regional Organiser, after being run down by engines crewed by strike breakers provided by the private firm AssetCo, photo Suzanne Beishon
The mood of striking London firefighters was made even more determined when two FBU members were hit by vehicles on picket lines on 1 November...
3 November 2010
Solidarity with London firefighters
London firefighters are engaged in a serious battle to defend jobs and working conditions. Fire bosses want to change their shift patterns to make it easier to introduce a casualised, part privatised service...
3 November 2010
National Shop Stewards Network: Anti-cuts conference
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG, writes See www.shopstewards.net.
3 November 2010
Nottingham school staff force council retreat over pay cuts
Protesting at the threat to deport AmDani in Nottingham, photo Gary Freeman
Up to 1,000 school support staff gathered recently in Nottingham's market square to protest against Nottingham City council's plans to move them onto term time contracts, writes Jean Thorpe, chair Nottingham City Unison, personal capacity.
3 November 2010
UCU: No education cuts, no fees!
After stopping building work on schools, preparing to privatise the NHS and slashing benefits, the Con-Dem coalition government has turned its attentions to higher education as part of its attempt to redistribute wealth upwards...
3 November 2010
Tube workers take more action for safety
More than 11,000 tube workers are striking for 24 hours against job cuts from 2 November...
3 November 2010
Members of the National Union of Journalists at the BBC will be on strike on 5 and 6 November and 15 and 16 November, with further dates to be announced in the next week or so...
3 November 2010
Housing: Rent caps, not benefit caps
A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill
'NO-ONE should ever be worse off working than they would be on benefits'. This is the carefully chosen mantra repeated time and again by Cameron, Osborne, Clegg and the rest of the Con-Dem wrecking crew...
3 November 2010
Graduate unemployment: We will not be a lost generation!
A RECENT study by the Graduate Careers Services Unit has revealed a huge hike in the rates of unemployment amongst graduates, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
3 November 2010
"Cable is a coward" said Teddy, an Oxford student, reflecting the anger of the 1,000 students and university workers from Oxford and Oxford Brookes who turned out to welcome Vince Cable, Con-Dem Business Secretary, on his planned visit to Oxford on 28 October, writes Ben Norman.
3 November 2010
100 students march against cuts and fees in Leeds
Socialist Students at rally at Leeds City Square organised by Leeds Trades council and Leeds Against the Cuts on 20 October, photo Iain Dalton
As students were left reeling from the Comprehensive Spending Review, Leeds University Against Cuts (LUAC) held a lively feeder march to the Leeds Against The Cuts city centre demo, writes Ian Pattison, Leeds Socialist Students.
3 November 2010
A delegation of students and trade unionists representing Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) recently lobbied Tory minister for universities David Willetts at his Havant constituency office to challenge him over the findings of the Browne Review, student debt and his government's plans for savage education, writes Nick Chaffey.
3 November 2010
On 28 October people walking home through Birmingham city centre were met by the sight of young people with banners and placards reading "no to cuts - fund our future" and "Cameron: on your bike!", writes Nich Brook-Hart, Birmingham Socialist Students.
3 November 2010
Socialism 2010 is a weekend of debate and discussion in central London hosted by the Socialist Party...
3 November 2010
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3 November 2010
We need jobs, homes and services - not racism
Jobs and Homes Not Racism - Youth Fight For Jobs banner on anti-EDL demonstration in Tower Hamlets, London, photo East London Socialist Party
Anti-racists and socialists don't shed any tears for Nick Griffin when the British National Party (BNP) leader is again called to court to defend his organisation's racist membership rules, writes Ross Saunders, Cardiff East Socialist Party.
3 November 2010
THE RIGHT to asylum is under political attack across Europe. In Britain, one of the Con-Dem coalition's first acts was to close the charity, Refugee and Migrant Justice, leaving thousands of asylum seekers...
3 November 2010
Sky's the limit: IT SEEMS that the belt tightening measures imposed on us by the coalition government hasn't penetrated the boardrooms of the top 100 FTSE companies, where directors' pay rocketed up by 55% in the last year...
3 November 2010
India - no voice for Kashmiri struggle
BOOKER PRIZE winner and campaigner Arundhati Roy has been threatened with a charge of sedition by the Indian government and with physical threats by Indian nationalist groups, writes Emma Smith.
3 November 2010
USA elections: What the Tea Party really represents
As The Socialist goes to print, US electors will be voting in their mid-term congressional elections...
3 November 2010
Model motion for a national demonstration in 2010
This .................(name of trade union body, student union, workplace, campaign) is opposed to every cut in the £81 billion austerity package demanded by this millionaire Con-Dem government, writes We will not accept:.
3 November 2010
Anti-cuts protest, photo Paul Mattsson
The sheer scale of the attack set out in the government's cuts exceeds even the more dire predictions, writes John McInally, vice-president Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) personal capacity.
3 November 2010
Con-Dem shock therapy - midwife to a double dip?
The comprehensive spending review (CSR) announced by the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, on 20 October will be a high-voltage charge of shock therapy for the British economy, writes Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party executive committee.
4 November 2010
London tube strike - picket line reports
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
The third day of joint strike action on 3 November by RMT and TSSA rail unions on London Underground shut down 107 stations across the network...
5 November 2010
Cindy Sheehan speaking at Socialism 2010 this weekend
Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist
On 6 and 7 November more than a thousand people will gather in central London for the Socialist Party's Socialism 2010.
US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan says that ‘socialism is the answer’...
5 November 2010
BBC staff fight for pensions: picket line reports
Updated 9/11/10 Programmes and services across the BBC have been affected on Friday 5 November by members of the NUJ taking industrial action to stop attacks on their pensions...
8 November 2010
Vendetta continues against Tommy Sheridan, socialist fighter
Tommy Sheridan speaking at Socialism 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
Tommy and Gail Sheridan's perjury trial is now in its sixth week and is certain to be the longest case of its kind in Scottish legal history...
9 November 2010
Pay, pensions and productivity strike at Southampton Daily Echo
In the pouring rain, NUJ members mounted a successful picket at the Daily Echo offices in Southampton as part of their fight for decent pay...
11 November 2010
Ireland: Largest student protest in a generation
OVER 30,000 students demonstrated in Dublin on 3 November, in what was reported to have been the largest student protest in a generation...
11 November 2010
Goldsmiths students occupy town hall
About 50 students at Goldsmith's university in south London, including members of Socialist Students, went into occupation of Deptford town hall, now part of Goldsmiths on 3-4 November...
11 November 2010
No to £9,000 tuition fees: Fight for your future!
Campaign to Defeat Fees demo 25 February 2009, photo Naomi Byron
THE GLOVES are off with regards to university fees. The Con-Dem coalition has announced that it intends to triple the cap on fees to £9,000 a year. If their plans are carried out a three-year degree could...
11 November 2010
What the capitalist cuts really mean
EVEN BEFORE the Con-Dem government's cuts hit hard, the economic crisis and neoliberal economic policies are cutting jobs and making job-seeking harder and even more exploited...
11 November 2010
Attacks on disabled people's rights
Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi
A recent Observer exposé of the implications of Con-Dem cuts on one London borough described a nightmare scenario...
11 November 2010
US elections: Bankruptcy of Democrats leads to spectacular fall
THE US 2010 mid-term elections revealed the deepening instability of the two-party system and capitalism, writes Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative, USA.
11 November 2010
NHS - workers looking for a fighting lead
A trade union activist in the NHS wrote the letter below to Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe on the response to Con-Dem cuts within the NHS...
11 November 2010
Angry campaigners discuss Stroud fightback
Thursday 4 November saw the first anti-cuts alliance meeting in Stroud, which followed an anti-BNP public meeting held a few weeks before...
11 November 2010
Crown profits: The government's repeated refrain that 'we're all in it together' when it comes to the pain of its spending cuts has worn very thin with the revelation that the Queen will receive a 15% share of the £6.6 billion Crown Estate property portfolio's profits...
11 November 2010
Royal Mail management in London is hell-bent on asset stripping in preparation for the Con-Dem government's plans to privatise the post service, writes Greg Maughan.
11 November 2010
100 supporters, staff and service users of South Manchester Law Centre protested before their High Court case on 8 November...
11 November 2010
Exeter Anti-cuts Alliance launched
Over 70 people attended the Exeter Anti-Cuts Alliance launch meeting, established as a federal, bottom-up organisation by Socialist Party and other trade union activists, writes Jim Thomson, Exeter Socialist Party
11 November 2010
Stop the Con-Dems' slave labour scheme
Fight for real jobs! On 7 November the Con-Dem government leaked its plans to force the unemployed into unpaid slave labour, writes Paul Callanan, Youth Fight for Jobs.
11 November 2010
London firefighters' dispute: fight is not over
Ian Leahair, Fire Brigades Union (FBU) executive council member for London, on picket line, photo Suzanne Beishon
Editorial:
The London district committee of the firefighters' union, the FBU, voted by 19 to 3 to postpone its strike action planned for 5 and 6 November...
11 November 2010
Scotland: potential to build a mass movement against cuts
Anti-cuts demonstration in Edinburgh, photo Ray Smith
A very positive meeting of anti-cuts campaigns and trade unionists took place in Glasgow on Saturday 6 November, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.
11 November 2010
Massive anger must be organised into coordinated trade union action
Editorial: The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development estimates that Con-Dem government cuts will result in 725,000 public sector workers' jobs disappearing, with 900,000 to go in the private sector...
11 November 2010
£9,000 student fees: we won't pay!
Youth Fight For Jobs march 2 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
Build a mass, national, democratic campaign against cuts and fees
* NO to fees rising to up to £9,000 a year and 80% cuts to universities' teaching budgets!
* NO to interest rates on student loans of up to 3% above inflation!
* NO to scrapping EMA and 25% cuts to college budgets!
* NO to young people and workers paying for the bankers' crisis!
11 November 2010
Review: Call Mr Robeson: A Life, with Songs
KATE JONES reviews Call Mr Robeson: A Life, with Songs, a one-man show currently on tour. It is coming to Coventry (Belgrade Theatre) on 27 November and Lincoln (University) on 11 December. For further...
11 November 2010
Leeds: Stop the closure of Union Books
The plans to close the student union run book shop, Union Books, at Leeds University has been met by an angry campaign by Leeds University Against Cuts (LUAC) which Socialist Students is playing a leading role in, writes Ian Pattison, Leeds Socialist Students.
11 November 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students conference
Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, photo Paul Mattsson
Organise the fightback: This will be a great opportunity to have your say in shaping the future of YFJ which has already held several successful demonstrations and attracted the support of six national trade unions...
11 November 2010
National Shop Stewards Network: Anti-cuts conference
Saturday 22 January 2011, 12-4pm
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG.
11 November 2010
Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts
The enormous boiling anger of students and young people against the vicious tuition fee rises and proposed cuts to education was impossible to ignore on the demo on 10 November 2010.
12 November 2010
Socialism 2010 - sessions packed to overflowing
Socialism 2010, photo T.U.Senan
Socialism 2010 was attended by over 900 people, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary...
15 November 2010
Kirklees Unison balloting against £400 million budget cut
After months of delays and deliberation by the leadership of Unison both locally and regionally, Kirklees Unison has voted to ballot for strike action...
15 November 2010
Liverpool: Lobby of council blocks main road
Liverpool lobby of council: Tony Mulhearn (holding The Socialist), waiting to speak, Daren Ireland, RMT and President of Liverpool TUC, addressing demo , photo Merseyside Socialist Party
An anti-cuts lobby of Liverpool city councillors on 10 November, called by Liverpool Trades Union Council, saw 200 workers defying police by blocking the town hall main road ...
16 November 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs calls for demonstration against cuts 24 November
Massive student demo
Youth Fight for Jobs calls for a demonstration against university budget cuts and increased tuition fees on 24th November.
17 November 2010
24 November - Strike against fees and cuts
A mass movement on the issue of fees and education cuts, organised and determined, has the potential to defeat the government and inspire all those who are coming into direct confrontation with the bosses and their cronies in parliament, writes Ben Robinson.
17 November 2010
Protests and meetings against the cuts
Liverpool lobby of council: Tony Mulhearn (holding The Socialist), waiting to speak, Daren Ireland, RMT and President of Liverpool TUC, addressing demo , photo Merseyside Socialist Party
Liverpool: An anti-cuts lobby of Liverpool city councillors on 10 November, called by Liverpool Trades Union Council, saw 200 workers defying police by blocking the main road outside the town hall in protest against cuts in services and jobs...
17 November 2010
Coalition turns back the clock on justice
THE COALITION government intends to virtually end legal aid in civil cases, with few exceptions. This devastating move will turn the clock back 60 years by denying justice to hundreds of thousands of people...
17 November 2010
Tories promote fast food nation
MUCH OF the nation's unhealthy consumption of sugar, salt, transfats, saturated fats, and alcohol is down to the promotion of products containing them by the giant corporations that dominate the food and drink industry...
17 November 2010
More jumpers: PRIVATISED ENERGY giant British Gas has dropped its charm offensive of lower prices to customers with a 7% rise in gas and electricity bills this winter...
17 November 2010
Ireland: United Left Alliance to challenge at next general election
THE NEWLY established United Left Alliance (ULA), which will be publicly launched on 26 November, involves the Socialist Party, the People Before Profit Alliance, the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group and the Independent Socialist group of Declan Bree in Sligo, writes Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party Ireland.
17 November 2010
Support the Laura Ashley strikers
IN SEPTEMBER bosses at the Laura Ashley clothing outlet in Dublin, Ireland abruptly told their 22-strong, predominantly female workforce that the shop would be closing, writes Michael O'Brien, Socialist Party Ireland.
17 November 2010
Manchester law centre staff protest against funding cuts, photo Hugh Caffrey
South Manchester Law Centre provides free and affordable legal services to people on low incomes, and yet it has to fight for survival after cuts in funding...
17 November 2010
Council officers announced 400 job losses on 9 November in Knowsley, north Merseyside, with more to follow. Jeff Bowe, a Knowsley Unison member, explained the situation to Hugh Caffrey:...
17 November 2010
Ballot cancelled in BA dispute
In a dramatic twist to the long running saga of the British Airways cabin crew dispute Unite have cancelled the ballot on the latest offer from the company, writes Neil Cafferky.
17 November 2010
Southampton strike: NUJ members mounted a successful picket at the Daily Echo offices in Southampton last week as part of their fight for decent pay...
17 November 2010
Britain's trillion pound horror story
TV review: EVER SINCE the worldwide economic recession started in 2008, Britain's bankers and big business have been trying to avoid responsibility for the crisis...
17 November 2010
NUS student and UCU demonstration against tuition fees and education cuts, photo Sarah Wrack
On 10 November the anger at the Con-Dem government's attacks spilled out onto the streets as 52,000 students and university workers marched through London, writes Jack Poole, Brighton Socialist Students.
17 November 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) and Socialist Students have initiated a defence campaign for students who have been charged with an offence following the occupation of the Tories' Millbank headquarters on 10 November...
17 November 2010
10 November demonstration: Students fighting back
Three east London students in their first year of college spoke to Sarah Wrack about the protest at Millbank. Why did you go on the demonstration... ?
17 November 2010
Afghanistan: Withdraw the troops now!
Demonstrating against war in Afghanistan, photo A Hill
The Nato onslaught on Afghanistan is now in its tenth year. Ten years of horrific brutality inflicted on those who have fought against the invasion and on many thousands of civilians in the areas under...
17 November 2010
Universal Credit - a thinly veiled attack on the sick and unemployed
The government launched its white paper proposals for universal credit to replace most of the current benefit system with a barrage of publicity that sought to demonise the unemployed. Jane Aitchison, PCS union president of the Department for Work and Pensions (personal capacity) investigates.
17 November 2010
Ireland: 'Not simply a crisis but an absolute disaster'
THE ECONOMY in the Irish Republic is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and the government may be forced to go, cap in hand, to the European Union to obtain a bailout...
17 November 2010
Kirklees - fighting £400 million budget cut
Kirklees Save Our services trade union protest against cuts , photo Huddersfield Socialist Party
After months of delays and deliberation by the leadership of Unison both locally and regionally, Kirklees Unison has voted to ballot for strike action against cuts and redundancies, a Unison member writes.
17 November 2010
National Shop Stewards Network: Anti-cuts conference
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG. See also www.shopstewards.net.
17 November 2010
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its campaign for the 2011 local elections
Poll Tax protests in Scotland 1989
We need councillors who will fight the cuts! "These cuts will hurt", warned the Tory chair of the Local Government Association, Lady Eaton. "Up to 100,000 jobs in local authorities will go. That's one in ten of the workforce", writes Clive Heemskerk.
18 November 2010
Manchester: Redundancy threat to police officers and staff
Thousands of Greater Manchester Police staff are facing job losses, writes Hugh Caffrey, Manchester Socialist Party.
18 November 2010
The long march in Bangladesh: interview with a march organiser
The people of Bangladesh are among the poorest in the world. Wages are so low that they undercut those of China in many industries.
18 November 2010
Firefighters rally and lobby MPs against cuts
Firefighters rally and lobby MPs against cuts, photo Suzanne Beishon
Over 2,000 firefighters packed into Westminster Central Hall on 17 November in a show of strength against the most brutal attacks on the fire service seen in decades...
19 November 2010
Workers and students launch Portsmouth anti-cuts campaign
Over 150 trade unionists, students and community activists packed into a university lecture theatre on 18 November to officially launch the Portsmouth Anti-Cuts Campaign...
22 November 2010
McCluskey elected general secretary of Unite
Len McCluskey has been elected as the general secretary designate of Unite. He will take over from Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson by the beginning of 2012...
22 November 2010
Peter Taaffe, photo Paul Mattsson
Video: Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, summaries the issues discussed at the Socialist Party national committee meeting on 20-21 November (3 mins)
22 November 2010
1,000 march in Gloucester against 'scorched earth policy'
'How would you like your cuts?' was the theme of Road Show consultations held by Gloucestershire County Council (GCC), mainly when working people could not attend...
22 November 2010
Largest demonstration in Nottingham for years
Around 1,200 protesters marched through Nottingham on Saturday to a rally in the town centre organised by Notts Save Our Services, writes Charlie Taylor, Nottingham Socialist Party.
23 November 2010
Student demo
When 50,000 students marched through London on November 10 both the police and student union leaders were shocked at the scale of the mobilisation.
This was, however, an indication of the depth of the anger at the Con-Dem coalition's savage cuts and a growing determination to fight back, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
23 November 2010
Occupying in Bristol against university fees and cuts
On Monday 22 November students at the University of the West of England (UWE) started an occupation of the 'core 24' building at the university's main campus in Frenchay, Bristol, writes Frankie Langeland.
23 November 2010
1,000 march in Gloucester against 'scorched earth policy'
'HOW WOULD you like your cuts?,' the 'consultations' by Gloucestershire County Council's (GCC) Road Show asked, mainly when working people could not attend, writes Gloucestershire Socialist Party.
23 November 2010
Fighting cuts: A militant stance is what's needed
IAN PAGE, a former Socialist Party councillor in the south London borough of Lewisham wrote a letter (see below), which was printed in the Evening Standard, criticising the reported actions of Labour councillors from the borough who are attempting to wash their hands of any responsibility for cuts i, writes Ian Page, former Socialist Party councillor, Lewisham..
23 November 2010
Government plans are an attack on council tenants
AS A result of plans set out by the government's housing minister Grant Shapps, new social housing tenants would be offered tenancies with no long term security, writes Paul Kershaw.
23 November 2010
Not one job or one service to be cut
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
Every time you switch on the TV there is yet more gloomy news about cuts - mostly handed out by millionaires; big business bosses laying off workers to maximise their profit, or their pals in parliament who do their bidding, writes Linda Taaffe, National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) secretary.
23 November 2010
Youth Fight for Education: No cuts, no fees, save EMA!
Students on the march
This hated Con-Dem government is facing the first mass national action against its brutal cuts. There has been a huge wave of students and young people protesting against the slashing of teaching budgets...
23 November 2010
No to victimisation, defend student protesters!
On 10 November over 50,000 students took part in a demonstration against the massive assault on the right to an education...
23 November 2010
Defend university access for all!
The official figures of how many young people were denied a university place this year have finally been announced. Disgracefully, 209,000 were left disappointed, writes Louise Campbell.
23 November 2010
Universities occupied over fees and cuts
Sussex: On 15 November, 170 students, including Socialist Student members, occupied a lecture theatre at Sussex university...
23 November 2010
Afghanistan war: SEVERAL THOUSAND protesters marched through central London on 20 November against the escalating war and continuing occupation of Afghanistan by Nato forces...
23 November 2010
Profiting from the most vulnerable
FRAIL OLD people living in homes run by Southern Cross Healthcare (SCH), Britain's biggest provider of private nursing homes for old people, pay £473 a month on average for the privilege, some pay £2,000, writes Roger Shrives.
23 November 2010
Cholera epidemic sparks clashes between Haitians and UN troops
VIOLENT CLASHES in Haiti between protesters and United Nations troops on 14 November left at least two dead and 16 wounded in the country's second city, Cap-Haitien, writes Niall Mulholland, CWI.
23 November 2010
Matt Wrack with firefighters at their rally and lobby MPs against cuts, photo Suzanne Beishon
On 17 November FBU members from Gloucestershire joined the 2,000 firefighters who poured out of their rally at Westminster and blocked the road outside Parliament, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire Socialist Party.
23 November 2010
McCluskey elected Unite general secretary
Len McCluskey has been elected as the general secretary designate of Unite. He will take over from Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson by the beginning of 2012, writes Kevin Parslow.
23 November 2010
Terry Kelleher, CPSU Executive, Ireland, condemns the cuts at the National Shop Stewards Network conference 2010, photo Socialist Party
The Irish government, the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are preparing to turn Ireland into a wasteland, writes Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party Ireland.
23 November 2010
Mass organised action can stop cuts
Editorial: "Ireland will have to cut fast and deep". These were the words of the Dutch finance minister describing the 'strings' that come with the IMF and EU loans to Ireland. The population of Ireland has already...
23 November 2010
Scotland and Wales: Don't accept the 'hand you have been dealt'
THE CON-DEM government does not only aim to bring in massive cuts in public spending controlled from Westminster. It also wants to push cuts through in the Scottish parliament and the Welsh Assembly. As with cuts in council services, they hope in this way to divert anger away from the Tory and Lib Dem parties. Dave Reid and Philip Stott call for the Con-Dems' plans to be defeated by a mass fightback similar to that fought by socialists in Liverpool council in the 1980s.
23 November 2010
Massive food price hikes spell disaster for poorest people
THE FINANCIAL speculators and hedge funds that so spectacularly contributed to the financial crisis resulting in the 'Great Recession' have now turned their attention to the international food market with devastating consequences, writes John Sharpe.
25 November 2010
Student walkouts on 24 November
Last updated 29 Nov Throughout the day students across the country demonstrated, occupied and walked out against the government's attacks on further and higher education, many initiated by Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students.
Scroll down to see newly added reports.
26 November 2010
Bristol - heavy handed policing on 24 November
A large game of cat and mouse, is the term that has been adopted by many to describe the demonstration against tuition fees and education cuts that took place in Bristol on Wednesday...
26 November 2010
Broad support for Cardiff occupation
Cardiff university students protest against higher tuition fees and education cuts, photo Cardiff Socialist Students
The occupation of Cardiff University ended in victory for the students as the university gave in to two demands of Action Against Cuts - Cardiff...
26 November 2010
Youth Fight for Education says "student struggle must escalate"
'Kettle Scotland Yard' protest planned for 11 December, and a national education shutdown called for 'Day X': On November 24, 1,600 police were used to 'kettle' up to 6,000 protesting school, college and university students on Whitehall for over eight hours...
26 November 2010
Rally at Leeds City Square organised by Leeds Trades council and Leeds Against the Cuts on 20 October, photo Iain Dalton
Over 100 people remain in occupation at Leeds University with hundreds of people visiting the occupation, as well as delegations of school and college students coming to discuss the way forward...
26 November 2010
Student movement - organise and escalate
Southampton protest
Up to 130,000 school, college and university students walked out on Wednesday 24 November in the biggest education action for 25 years.
There was a mood of jubilation in discovering their strength, and determination to defeat these brutal cuts.
Ben Robinson, Youth Fight for Jobs, looks at the way forward.
30 November 2010
Students march as parliament debates tuition fees
Newcastle students protest, photo by Ray Smith
Updated 1/12/10 Thousands of students marched again today, 30th November, to protest as tuition fees were to be debated in parliament...
30 November 2010
Welsh further education student protests escalate
Gorseinon Gower FE College
Gorseinon was brought to a standstill today, for the second time in a week, by hundreds of protesting students...
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