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The Socialist 8 July 2010

Mass action can stop cuts

Mass action can stop cuts

Build united action to stop the cuts

What the Socialist Party says

Con-Dem budget cuts: Hitting those on benefits hardest

How will George Osborne's budget affect families?

Housing benefit cuts - increasing homelessness

Cuts to disability benefits will increase misery

Fight the savage cuts by Neath/Port Talbot council

Hull: Rallying against the austerity budget

'Godfather' turning in his grave

NUS anti-cuts conference

Youth Fight for Jobs Protest!

BNP forced to abandon its 'festival of hate'

South Africa: 5,000 sacked miners on strike

Kazakhstan: The fight goes on

News in brief

Organise against academies now!

Limited new 'final' offer facing BA cabin crew

PCS will fight new attack on redundancy pay

Unison by-election: fighting leadership needed

Shrewsbury Pickets march for justice

Lindsey refinery fire death: inquiry needed

Workplace news in brief

Unite general secretary election:

Interview: Ken Clarke's prison plans

Pride, prejudice, fightback and hypocrisy

A warm welcome at Summer Camp

Socialism 2010 Saturday 6 - Sunday 7 November

When the financial wizardry lost its magic

Mali's master of the ngoni

Previous issues, etc

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What the Socialist Party says:

As has been explained in previous issues of The Socialist, this economic crisis was not caused by working class people and they should not pay for it.

To stop the debilitating and even murderous effects of this budget requires a powerful movement in defence of jobs, homes and services.

A first step must be a massive national trade union-led demonstration and the building of local anti-cuts unions to organise solidarity and action to stop cuts.

See 'Build united action to stop the cuts'.

We demand:

No cuts in wages, jobs, services and benefits. For a living income for all.
Make the bankers and the rich pay for their crisis. Tax the rich.
Nationalise the banks and major companies under popular, democratic control. Compensation to be paid only on the basis of proven need.
End privatisation of public services. Take all sub-contracted services back in house. End the profiteering from our public services.
An immediate 50% increase in the state retirement pension as a step towards a living pension for all pensioners.
Annual increases to be linked to average earnings.
Increase the minimum wage to £8 an hour and abolish all exemptions to it. For an annual increase in the minimum wage, and all wages, linked to average earnings or above.
For investment in training and job creation in social care, child care and health care.
For investment in a massive programme of house building and refurbishment to create decent public housing and jobs.

A democratic socialist plan of production, enabling resources to be allocated based on need, not profit and in an environmentally sustainable way.

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