Solidarity 3/198
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The 2011 UK Budget will once again be more fuel on the Tory Government’s class war fire.
Solidarity 3/198, 23 March 2011
Fight Tories class war budget
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UCU action shows the way
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The University and College Union (UCU) lecturers’ strike on Thursday 24 March is the first ever national strike of UCU members in both further and higher education.
Pensions: fight like the French!
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The generalised attack on public sector pensions that the UK government is pushing through now is not unprecedented.
Industrial news in brief
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The Rail, Maritime and Transport workers’ union (RMT) is moving towards escalation in a dispute against victimisations on London Underground.
Strikes against cuts in Lambeth and Tower Hamlets
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Library workers in Lambeth have voted unanimously, in an indicative ballot, for strike action against job and service cuts.
Royal Mail job cuts
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Two London mail centres could close as part of a Royal Mail restructuring plan, which puts over 700 workers and 1,000 managerial jobs on the chopping block.
Women in the Paris Commune
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Women’s role in the Paris Commune was not limited to the morning of March 18 when a crowd of working class women put themselves between the cannons in possession of the National Guard (the citizen’s militia) and the troops of the National Assembly, led by Adolphe Thiers; the action which sparked the revolution.
Why we should not denounce intervention in Libya
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An individual, a group, a party, or a class that “objectively” picks its nose while it watches men drunk with blood massacring defenceless people is condemned by history to rot and become worm-eaten while it is still alive. (Leon Trotsky)
Libya: views on the Western intervention
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Three more viewpoints on the Western intervention from other socialists.