Britain

How to defeat cuts and tax rises?

How to fight the far right?

2010 – The most tumultuous year for two decades

Lifelong Militant/Socialist Party member

The ruling class in Britain is determined to make sure that it is not them, but the working class and young people, who pay for the crisis in their system.

On Thursday 9 December, while parliament debated the Con-Dem coalition government’s plan to treble university tuition fees, a fourth day of angry protest took place across the country.

On the debate how to fight the cuts

Just as the student movement reaches Day X, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) has set out the agenda for its anti-cuts conference on 22 January.

Up to 130,000 school, college and university students walked out on Wednesday 24 November in the biggest education action for 25 years.

Tens of thousands of school and university students rage against attacks on education

50,000-strong student march an example to workers’ movement

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its campaign for the 2011 local elections

Interview with 3 protesters involved in occupying Tory HQ

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Socialism 2010, hosted by the Socialist Party during the weekend 6-7 November, was attended by over 900 people.

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Assembled masses shake Con-Dem government

Midwife to a double dip?

4,000 workers from at least ten different trade unions, led by 100 striking firefighters, marched through central London on Saturday 23 October.

For a one-day public sector general strike

Trade union forced to respond with action

£81 billion cuts announced on "axe Wednesday"

Pro-big business politicians can be forced to retreat

Neil Kinnock’s speech to the 1985 Labour Party conference signalled the start of a purge of Marxists from the party and anticipated the creation of New Labour.

What strategy to beat the cuts?

"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water… delegates to the TUC, freed from decades of impotence, […]

Today the beauty industry, which refers to toiletries, cosmetics, dieting products and plastic surgery, is worth billions of pounds. The negative effects that its methods and advertising have, particularly on women, in the quest for […]

Labour elects Ed Miliband as new leader

Earlier this year, four Unison activists, all Socialist Party members, were banned from office for up to three years. Their crime? Producing a leaflet for the union’s 2007 conference calling for greater democracy within the […]

Organising to save jobs and services

Autobiography shows aim to destroy Labour as a vehicle for working class struggle

Thursday 16 September saw one of the most formidable demonstrations in the capital city for some time. 2,500 uniformed firefighters marched with Fire Brigades Union (FBU) flags and placards, whistles and vuvuzelas, and even a […]

Youth Fight for Jobs protest

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi

MASSIVE ATTACKS on working people, students, young people and the unemployed are currently being made by the government, in an attempt to put the bill for the economic crisis squarely at the feet of the […]

Fightback! Join the day of action on 20 October

Thousands demonstrate across Europe

Strike will start today

The only antidote to painful public-sector cuts

Do local councillors have ‘no choice’? – Lessons from 1980s Liverpool Council struggle

Up to 1,000 firefighters poured into the conference room of TUC headquarters for a mass meeting of the London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) on Tuesday night (24 August).

London Socialist Party members travelled to Watford (North of London) to deliver a protest letter to the Vinci regional office.

With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential.

…amid fears of a double-dip recession

After New Labour’s axe men began the education cuts, the Con-Dem butchers seem to have been let loose with a chainsaw.

The PCS civil servants union’s national executive committee (NEC) has met to discuss how to respond to the Tory/Liberal coalition government’s cuts and privatisation programme.

After weeks of vacillation the TUC has finally agreed NOT to call a national demo against the cuts this year.

For trade union led mass campaign to stop destruction of Health Service!