 Hands off our NHS!
 | The grim reaper - NHS market reforms, photo Paul Mattsson |
On its 60th anniversary, we call for a mass campaign to defend our health service:
* End big business profiteering out of the NHS! Abandon the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). No to private polyclinics replacing local GP surgeries...
60 years of the NHS
Socialist Party campaigns
Local government strike action: Workers say: 'enough is enough!' The pages of the national press have been full of the statistics for months. Bread up 44%, pasta up 20%, utility bills are likely to rise by 40% and petrol is going up faster than you can measure it. Marc Glasscoe, Branch Secretary, Lincoln City Unison (personal capacity) writes.
Fight Labour's welfare privatisation
91% of pay deals are below inflation
Workers united against pay freeze
Socialist Party news and analysis
Boris Johnson reveals his real policies THE SOCIALIST has warned previously that the Tory mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is a right-wing populist with a bias towards more affluent areas of outer London, where the bulk of his support is found, writes Neil Cafferky.
Education - class segregation grows
Royals down to their last crown?
Union support for demo to stop BNP 'festival'
National Shop Stewards Network
National Shop Stewards Network: Rebuilding trade union strength The second conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) on Saturday 28 June was opened by chair Dave Chapple, explaining how his CWU postal workers' union branch was balloting its 3,000 members for strike action, writes Alison Hill.
Campaign for a New Workers Party
Campaign for a New Workers' Party  | Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference 2008, photo Socialist Party |
On Sunday 29 June, 300 people filled the main hall in South Camden Community School in London to round off a very important weekend for the labour movement in Britain and to address the central question facing workers in Britain today: How can we fight for a working class political voice...
Obituary
Obituary: Terry Fields  | Terry Fields in 1985 |
Tragically Terry Fields has died from lung cancer at the age of 71.
Terry was a supporter of Militant, forerunner of the Socialist Party, and a defender of the working class.
In 1983, after many years as a lay official for the fire fighters' union, he was elected as an MP for Liverpool Broadgreen as 'a workers' MP on a worker's wage'.
Socialist Party LGBT
LGBT London Pride: No to homophobia "You can be gay behind closed doors, you can be heterosexual behind closed doors, but you don't bring it onto the streets, demanding more rights for it." So says Richard Barnbrook, a member of the racist and homophobic British National Party (BNP), writes Greg Randall, Socialist Party LGBT group convenor.
International socialist news and analysis
Mugabe clique tightens its grip on Zimbabwe DESPITE MORGAN Tsvangirai's decision to pull out of the second 'run-off' round of Zimbabwe's presidential elections, 'voting' proceeded last week with Robert Mugabe as the only candidate, writes Keith Pattendon.
Big oil returns to Iraq
Poland: Thousands join 'hands off the Labour Code' demo
Socialist Party workplace news
PCS shows action gets results The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) national executive (NEC) agreed last week to a campaign of action over pay in the Autumn. Three national strikes have already won national agreements to protect members...
Visteon workers win 5%
For a fighting, democratic Usdaw
Tube cleaners in pay strike
Victory for Belfast Airport shop stewards
East London street cleaners fight privatised employer
The Socialist 25 June 2008
Socialist Party campaigns
Prices up, Wages down...Summer of action needed!  | Shell oil tanker drivers strike was successful, photo Bob Severn |
The cost of bread and meat up 9% in twelve months! Milk, cheese and eggs up by almost 20% and heating oil leaping by a staggering 84%! Jump in your car and head for the pumps and it's the same story, as petrol hits 112p a litre, writes Robin Clapp.
Workers' battles win results: Tankers drivers' success upsets bosses
Council workers striking back
Socialist Party editorial
Editorial: Summer of discontent?  | Birmingham Council workers on strike, April 24, photo S. O Neill |
Following the pay rise victory of Shell tanker drivers, Unison council workers have voted for strike action over pay; starting with two days in July. This vote will be widely welcomed by workers throughout the public sector...
PCS union sends letter of solidarity to Unison
Campaign for a new workers' party: Conference - Sunday 29 June, 11am - 5pm
Campaign for a new workers' party ConferenceSunday 29 June 11am - 5pm South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 Nearest stations - Kings Cross & St Pancras, Euston, Mornington Crescent Speakers confirmed so far include: *Bob Crow, RMT general secretary *Dave Nellist, Campaign for a New Workers' Party national chair *John McInally, PCS vice president *Simeon Andrews, Rob Hoveman, Dave Church, Mike Davies |
Unison Conference 2008
Unison conference 2008: Fighting to reclaim the union for its members  | Glenn Kelly at Unison conference 2008 calls for review of Labour link, photo Paul Mattsson |
BY THE end of this year's Unison conference of public sector workers, the Socialist Party was seen as the most prominent party, as a result of its campaign against the union leaders' witch hunt of four Socialist Party members and for promoting discussion on why Unison should break its political link with Labour, writes Jane James.
Unison Service Group Executives - socialists elected
National Shop Stewards Network Conference
Fighting, democratic unions not witch hunts
Socialist Party campaigns
Thousands show their hatred for racism On Saturday 21 June several thousand people marched against the far-right, racist British National Party (BNP) on the Love Music Hate Racism demonstration, writes Kat Jayawant and Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
International Socialist Resistance and Socialist Party on Love Music Hate Racism demo - Video 9 mins
Student unions can be pushed into action
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Review: False 'gods' of a failing system  | Peter Taaffe speaking at the Socialist Party fringe meeting at Unison conference 2008, photo Gary Freeman |
Feature: According to the ancient Greeks: "Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." Peter Taaffe reviews 'The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future', drawing out the value and limitations of a devastating critique of 'modern' capitalism.
International socialist news and analysis
Zimbabwe: Mugabe's militias crush his political opponents WITH ONLY days remaining before Zimbabwe's re-run presidential election, Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition candidate of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has announced he is pulling out of the contest, citing the use of widespread violence against his supporters by Zanu-PF militias allied to the incumbent president, Robert Mugabe. Dave Carr writes.
Afghanistan - paying the price of western occupation
Summit fails to halt runaway oil prices
Britain: No.1 arms dealer
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Cut throat competition threatens NHS I WAS sorry to read in The Socialist 537 that Peter Taaffe has a pain in his big toe. His difficulty in getting to see his GP is all too common. Government imposed targets mean frustrating phone calls to book appointments, writes Jon Dale.
"With polyclinics you're just a number"
Stop this sell-off!
Origins of the Labour Party
'Old' Labour - born out of workers' struggles To most people today, the phrase 'Labour politician' brings to mind a sleek well-paid career politician. But that was not the way the Labour Party started out. For at least the first half of its life the Labour Party was built and maintained by dedicated...
Socialist Party workplace news
Brighton bus drivers match inflation BUS DRIVERS working for Brighton & Hove Bus Company have won an important deal in their pay dispute with the Go Ahead-owned business. T&G Unite members have accepted an improved pay offer from management by 410 votes to 73, writes Peter Knight.
Teachers fight academy plans in Bolton
Union news in brief
Usdaw election
The Socialist 18 June 2008
Socialist Party campaigns
No! to racism: Yes! to decent jobs, homes and public services  | At a previous 'Love Music Hate Racism' concert, photo Paul Mattsson |
- Unite and fight against low pay and cuts in jobs and services.
- No to the far-right, racist BNP.
- End cheap labour. For a minimum wage of £8 an hour. No exemptions.
- A massive public spending programme to create more houses, schools, hospitals and all the facilities we need. End privatisation.
- Campaign to form a new mass party of the working class.
Watch video of International Socialist Resistance on the Love Music Hate Racism demo
Unite and fight against racism  | 'Love Music Hate Racism' last year, photo Paul Mattsson |
Feature: It was only a little over forty years ago that black people in the US, the most powerful capitalist country in the world, won equal rights in law - and only then as a result of a magnificent mass movement that shook the country to its foundations...
Protest at BNP 'hate festival'
Let AmDani stay!
London protest over Rajapaksa's dismal human rights record
International socialist news and analysis
Lisbon Treaty 'No' vote delivers major shock for political and big business Establishment  | Socialist Party No vote campaign, photo Paul Mattsson |
IN A higher than normal turnout for a referendum, 53.1%, the Lisbon Treaty (the renamed EU Constitution) was clearly rejected in Ireland on Thursday 12 June, by 53.4% to 46.6%.
This is a major shock for the political and business Establishment in Ireland.
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), writes from Dublin.
Socialist Party campaigns
End the occupations  | The Socialist Party's grim reaper made the front page of the press at the anti-Bush demo, photo Paul Mattsson |
SEVERAL THOUSAND anti-war demonstrators gathered in Parliament Square, London, last Sunday evening to protest against the two-day visit to Britain of US president George Bush...
David Davis - sanity or carving a position?
Stop big business polluting our environment
Unison witch-hunt
Unison conference: Angry delegates attack leaders  | Unison conference 2008 anti-witchhunt protest, photo Paul Mattsson |
THE LOCAL government sessions of the Unison union's conference passed a resolution criticising the conduct of pay negotiations in local government, writes Jane James.
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS: Polyclinics - Stop this backdoor privatisation Feature: IN MANY parts of the country, new 'polyclinics' are opening up, replacing established GPs' surgeries. JO SECHER warns that the government's new polyclinics are not "community based health care", and they are certainly not "GP-led surgeries".
PFI - a very bad deal for the NHS
Socialist Party campaigns
Shell drivers strike According to press reports, the strike by tanker drivers at multinational giant Shell's depots has concluded with a deal. It was 100% solid at the Shell Haven site in Coryton, Essex. Drivers were angry about their treatment from Shell and the contractor Hoyer. A driver on the picket line, Gary, spoke to The Socialist.
Greater Manchester - save your post office
Leeds: Stop Beeston post office closures  | Leeds protest to stop Beeston post office closures, photo Nigel Poustie |
The Leeds Socialist Party branch has been campaigning against the closure of three post offices in Beeston. We have done several stalls in the area and had a good response...
Socialist Party workplace news
National Shop Stewards Network Conference Standing up for our rights!: The prospects facing the majority of young workers today can only be described as dire. Many young people can only dream of earning a decent wage and carving out a secure future for themselves, writes Tracy Edwards, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), young members' organiser.
CWU's link with Labour hotly debated
Reopen the battle on NHS pay
Victory against bosses at Keele
Workplace news in brief
Education
Stop New Labour's divisive school academy plans  | Teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson |
LABOUR'S 'IMPROVE or close' ultimatum to 638 English schools is a thinly disguised plan to accelerate the privatisation of secondary education. Under their "National Challenge Strategy", schools that have failed to meet the imposed minimum target, Martin Powell-Davies, secretary, Lewisham National Union of Teachers (NUT) writes.
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