The Socialist

The Socialist 8 August 2012

Our health, not their wealth!

The Socialist issue 729


Our health not their wealth!

End the insane cycle of youth joblessness

Council tax benefit cuts

March together on 20 October and then strike together to stop all cuts

Sean Rigg inquest: damning verdict for police

Gove sneaking unqualified teachers into academies

Them & Us


Views on the Olympics and the opening ceremony

Transport 'customer experience' staff still fighting for Olympics bonus


Vote No in Unison's local government pension scheme ballot

Swansea DVLA staff protest at embarrassment of job cuts

Support Churchill cleaners, Tyne & Wear Metro

Workplace News in brief


Interview with Southampton rebel councillors

TUSC: Keeping up the pressure on the austerity parties

Socialist Students organise to fight fees and cuts

Workers win Wales Austerity Games despite bosses moving the goalposts!

Growing resistance to NHS cuts shown in Redditch

Portsmouth fans fight to save Fratton Park

Brighton pensioner jailed for non-payment of council tax

Welsh Labour: Red flag or white flag?

Obituary: Frank Mills, 1939 - 2012


Syria: Is there an alternative to the developing civil war?

Markets force savage austerity measures on Spanish workers

Trial resumes of Kazakhstan human rights activist

 
 
 

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In this week's issue:

The Socialist 8 August 2012, issue Our health, not their wealth!

spotOur health not their wealth!

Fight for our NHS, photo Senan

Hinchingbrooke hospital is in debt due to costs incurred from a PFI scheme introduced by Labour. Now Circle Healthcare has been brought in to manage and 'save' the hospital.

spotEnd the insane cycle of youth joblessness

spotCouncil tax benefit cuts

spotMarch together on 20 October and then strike together to stop all cuts

spotSean Rigg inquest: damning verdict for police

spotGove sneaking unqualified teachers into academies

spotThem & Us

London Olympics

spotViews on the Olympics and the opening ceremony

London Olympics opening ceremony

London Olympics opening ceremony

The reaction of the right wing to the Olympics opening ceremony says it all. It was attacked in a racist, reactionary, anti-working class article in the Daily Mail (later taken down from the paper's website...

spotTransport 'customer experience' staff still fighting for Olympics bonus

spotVote No in Unison's local government pension scheme ballot

Unison members in local government are being subjected to an avalanche of material from the union leadership, urging us to vote to accept the new pension deal, LGPS 2014, writes a Unison member.

spotSwansea DVLA staff protest at embarrassment of job cuts

spotSupport Churchill cleaners, Tyne & Wear Metro

spotWorkplace News in brief

spotInterview with Southampton rebel councillors

Demo last year in Southampton City Centre by striking Unite and Unison workers, including refuse, toll bridge and port health authority workers, amongst others, photo Andrew Howe

'We weren't elected to make cuts': Two Southampton Labour Party councillors for Coxford ward, Keith Morrell and Don Thomas, have been investigated by the party whips

spotTUSC: Keeping up the pressure on the austerity parties

spotSocialist Students organise to fight fees and cuts

spotWorkers win Wales Austerity Games despite bosses moving the goalposts!

spotGrowing resistance to NHS cuts shown in Redditch

spotPortsmouth fans fight to save Fratton Park

spotBrighton pensioner jailed for non-payment of council tax

spotWelsh Labour: Red flag or white flag?

spotObituary: Frank Mills, 1939 - 2012

spotSyria: Is there an alternative to the developing civil war?

Devastated communities in Syria

Devastated communities in Syria

Syria's agony continues unabated. Across the country there are indiscriminate attacks by the Assad regime forces and their militias, bloody sectarian reprisals by the armed opposition, refugee floods and humanitarian disasters.

spotMarkets force savage austerity measures on Spanish workers

spotTrial resumes of Kazakhstan human rights activist