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23 May 2013

No to terrorism! No to racism! No to war!

Statement from Greenwich Socialist Party on the Woolwich killing:The unprovoked and barbaric murder of an unarmed soldier in Woolwich was a horrific event and an appalling tragedy for the victim, and the victim's family and friends.

22 May 2013

Big business tax avoidance scandal

We are the 99% - Take the wealth off the 1% Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson

Make the corporate fat cats pay! We've been robbed! Every day big corporations are stealing millions from us; millions that could be used to employ doctors and nurses, to build desperately needed houses and to reverse the massive cuts

22 May 2013

End this 'evil bedroom tax'

Leeds anti-bedroom tax demonstration 21 April 2013, photo Mid Shelley

'How can the person responsible for driving through this evil bedroom tax look at himself in the mirror every day?', writes Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool Socialist Party.

22 May 2013

Fighting cuts in wales

Caerphilly march to save the A&E, photo Becky Davis

Wales faces a bleak future on the basis of capitalism unless the working class can defend public services and the welfare state

22 May 2013

Them & Us

MPs' pay rise: £65,738 a year basic salary just isn't enough for our MPs. Not to mention their infamous expenses.

22 May 2013

Tories in turmoil over Europe

The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe. Over half of Tory backbenchers voted against the Queen's speech - their own government's legislative agenda

15 May 2013

Give us jobs, not Tory lies

We've been hearing this rubbish for years - British workers are lazy - and now Eton-educated Tory London mayor Boris 'the bankers' friend' Johnson has stepped in, accusing British workers of sloth

15 May 2013

Stop the health cuts!

Unison staff at Pinderfields hospital strike, photo Iain Dalton

Trade union-led national action on NHS needed now: The chair of the NHS regulator has warned that pressure on A&E units is "out of control... [and] totally unsustainable"

15 May 2013

Axe the killer tax: End the bedroom tax now

On the march in Bootle against the Bedroom Tax, May 2013, photo  Socialist Party

The death of Stephanie Bottrill, who couldn't afford the bedroom tax, is a tragedy made in Westminster by a government that wants to make working class people pay for the economic crisis

15 May 2013

Con-Dems' benefit fact fraud

A survey carried out by the TUC earlier this year revealed that people believe, on average, that 27% of the welfare budget is claimed fraudulently, writes Ben Golightly.

15 May 2013

Bedroom tax non-implementation

Axe the killer tax - end the bedroom tax now, photo  Socialist Party

Only mass action can defeat it: Some disabled workers have raised the idea of urging civil servants and local authority workers to refuse to participate in administering these new laws

15 May 2013

Fat cat tax-dodging: 200 lorry loads of lolly!

Con-Dems benefit fact fraud - tax, avoided, evaded and uncollected, photo  Socialist Party

Anger is rising at the companies and millionaires who pay little or no tax in Britain. They're very happy to make money exploiting people's hard work - but less keen to put anything back, writes Tom Baldwin.

15 May 2013

Them & Us

Condition critical: Cuts in NHS staffing levels as a result of 'efficiency savings', and the drive to achieve Foundation Trust status, mean that patient care is at unsafe levels, writes Simon Carter.

13 May 2013

Stop the cruel, ruthless bedroom tax!

Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny

On Sunday 12 May the suicide was reported of a 53 year old woman, Stephanie Bottrill, who killed herself because of the bedroom tax. This is a tragedy made in Westminster by a government that wants to make working class people pay for the crisis of the bankers, the super-rich and the capitalist system they represent.

8 May 2013

NHS WARNING! Privatisation puts patients at risk

 Save our local hospital services (SOLHS) demonstration, held on Saturday 20 April 2013 in Dewsbury. , photo Dawn Wheelhouse

BMI Healthcare runs 65 private hospitals in Britain where it is the biggest private health firm. It usually gets an easy ride from the media, but less so recently, writes Roger Shrives.

8 May 2013

Capitalist parties rejected: Time for a new mass workers' party

TUSC protest outside Camden town hall, March 2013, photo Neil Cafferky

The results of the county council elections on 2 May marked a new low for all three major parties. For the first time ever not one of them got 30% or more of the vote; another illustration of the hollowing out of their base of support

8 May 2013

Tax bankers not bedrooms!

 Hull protest against the Bedroom Tax , photo by Lash

While people struggling to survive on low incomes are being hammered by pay cuts, bedroom tax, cuts in council tax support and other benefits, George Osborne recently slashed the top rate of income tax for himself and his millionaire chums

8 May 2013

Teachers demand action

NUT protest outside the Department of Education by teachers and parents opposed to the GCSE regrading in August 2012, photo Neil Cafferky

Education secretary Michael Gove's announcement that he plans to attack our holidays and conditions, on top of his attacks on pay, have angered teachers right across the country, writes Martin Powell-Davies, Member of the NUT executive.

8 May 2013

One in five borrow to buy food

Five million families in Britain are struggling to pay for food and are reaching "breaking point" according to a 'Which?' survey...

8 May 2013

Big business threatens bees

Bee, photo by USDA Photo by Jack Dykinga

The Con-Dem government has been accused of bowing to the agrochemical industry, supporting bad science, and threatening food production around the world, writes Pete Mason.


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