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Socialist Party news and analysis
Hypocrites! Tories bash benefits, rich let off the hook
Never Trust a Tory, photo by Paul Mattsson
Breadline Britain – living in poverty
Hackney College UCU members protest June 2012 “Sack bankers not teachers”, photo Paul Mattsson
Poverty and job worries hit mental health
Teachers report children going hungry
Government of rich ups war on welfare state
Cuts are now predicted to last to 2020. But Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on Monday 25 June mapped out the depth of that on-going suffering. The speech included little detail but spells out misery…
Lone parents need decent wages and benefits, photo Paul Mattsson
Miliband speech: no answer to the race to the bottom
Protest for affordable housing – join the Austerity Games
Socialist Party NHS campaign
The Con-Dems have the National Health Service in their sights – but now we can see clearly their brutal intentions, writes Roger Shrives.
Unite workers at St Thomas’ Hospital joined the public sector strike on 28 May, photo by Paul Mattsson
Feature: It has been well documented that the National Health Service (NHS) is under attack and in England faces its total destruction through the Health and Social Care Act. Socialist Party health worker activists, including Terry Pearce of the Save Heatherwood Hospital campaign (personal capacity) investigate.
100 health workers came out in a lunchtime protest against the potential loss of over 100 posts at St Helier hospital in south London on Wednesday 27 July , photo Chris Newby
Socialist Party workplace news
London bus workers show their strength
The sleeping giant has woken up – on 22 June 20,000 London bus workers came out on strike over payments for extra pressure during the Olympics, a London bus worker writes.
Hackney bus workers stopped the busses on the 22 June 2012 London-wide bus strike , photo by Paul Mattsson
Police wade in at Coryton protest
Croyton protest 25 June 2012: dozens of workers, their families and supporters protested against imminent job losses Coryton Oil Refinery, photo Ian Pattison
HMRC members show their opposition to another round of job cuts and privatisation
HMRC PCS members on the picket line n Shipley, Yorkshire , photo by Iain Dalton
RMT conference prepares for battle
RMT delegates attending their annual conference have no illusions about the attacks they face across the industry and the fightback necessary to defeat them, writes Jared Wood, Neasden RMT political officer and conference delegate
Sheffield recycling workers: Support their indefinite strike action
“You mean there’ll be queues like this every day?” asks a driver as 30, 40, maybe 50 cars back up from the Dump-It site onto the main road…
Unison conference Delegates call for effective battle on pay
Having declared that Unison has got the best public sector pension deal it could get, the union’s general secretary, Dave Prentis, is now moving on to the next campaign on “fair pay”…
The recent Unison conference overwhelmingly supported the resolution to affiliate to the Tamil Solidarity campaign, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity international coordinator
Unite conference ‘The renaissance of trade unionism’
The first day of Unite’s 2012 policy conference was dominated by general secretary Len McCluskey’s address. Speaking of the “renaissance of trade unionism”, Len highlighted key disputes for Unite over the last two years, writes Kevin Parslow Unite London and Eastern delegate, personal capacity.
Block on Progress – “intolerable think tank”?
Britain’s three biggest unions, GMB, Unite and Unison, have all questioned the role of the Progress group inside the Labour Party, writes Bob Severn.
Conference – Saturday 30 June, 10am-3pm
Temple of Peace, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition: Building the fight against all cuts
With growing numbers of people across Europe turning to anti-austerity alternatives at the ballot box, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) national steering committee met in June to discuss contesting future elections here in Britain.
TUSC supports the striking tube workers working for Tube Lines at the Tube Lines HQ in Canary Wharf 25 April 2012, photo Paul Mattsson
International socialist news and analysis
Spain: New epicentre of crisis in Europe
Spain is becoming the new epicentre of the capitalist crisis in the eurozone. The country’s massive banking crisis, has led to the right-wing Rajoy government accepting a humiliating €100 billion European…
General strike in Spain, photo Sarah Wrack
Kazakh embassy protest to free Bolat Atabayev
Kazakhstan embassy protest to free Bolat Atabayev, photo Dave Carr