The Socialist

The Socialist 29 August 2012

Con-Dems win gold for hypocrisy!

The Socialist issue 731


Paralympics, Atos scandal, Remploy closures... Con-Dems win gold for hypocrisy!

Build for a 24-hour general strike!

The Julian Assange case

Galloway's ignorant comments

Gove stole our exam grades!

Crisis services handed over to charity food banks

Them & Us


Building workers fight pay cut threat

Sparks protest at London Crown House site

Local government pension scheme

Sheffield recycling workers to resume strike action


Lobby the TUC for a 24-hour general strike

Jobs and homes, not racism

East Midlands: Save our ambulance service

NHS: Unions must defend national pay bargaining

TUSC councillor rejects Walsall cuts 'consultation'


Prison work - £3 a day is exploitation for profit

Women's prisons - Con-Dems' 'reforms' mean cuts and privatisation


Norway: Mass murderer Anders Breivik gets life sentence

Kazakhstan: Human rights campaigner Vadim Kuramshin freed


Leon Trotsky: A revolutionary's life

Fight council tax benefit cuts

The 'madness' of building homes


Notting Hill carnival-goers support Lonmin miners

Socialist Party summer camp

Why I joined the Socialist Party

Save our computer server!

 
 
 

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The Socialist 29 August 2012, issue Con-Dems win gold for hypocrisy!

spotParalympics, Atos scandal, Remploy closures... Con-Dems win gold for hypocrisy!

London Olympics opening ceremony, photo Alison Hill

London Olympics opening ceremony, photo Alison Hill

Millions are watching the 2012 Paralympics. The Games aim to inspire young disabled people to take up sport and compete at the highest level

spotBuild for a 24-hour general strike!

spotThe Julian Assange case

spotGalloway's ignorant comments

spotGove stole our exam grades!

spotCrisis services handed over to charity food banks

spotThem & Us

spotBuilding workers fight pay cut threat

Building workers fight pay cut: at Cardiff's Royal Infirmary 24 August, fighting Besna 2, led by electrician and TUSC candidate Andrew Wilkes, photo Sarah Mayo

Building workers fight pay cut: at Cardiff's Royal Infirmary 24 August, fighting Besna 2, led by electrician and TUSC candidate Andrew Wilkes, photo Sarah Mayo

Dozens gathered at Cardiff's Royal Infirmary on 24 August to support electricians taking action against "Besna 2"...

spotSparks protest at London Crown House site

spotLocal government pension scheme

spotSheffield recycling workers to resume strike action

spotLobby the TUC for a 24-hour general strike

26 March 2011 TUC demonstration against the government's austerity programme, photo Suzanne Beishon

26 March 2011 TUC demonstration against the government's austerity programme, photo Suzanne Beishon

Time to rise up!: Britain's self-appointed 'elite' has declared war on the ordinary people of this country. From self-serving politicians seeking office for their own gain, to greedy bankers wrecking homes, jobs and lives

spotJobs and homes, not racism

spotEast Midlands: Save our ambulance service

spotNHS: Unions must defend national pay bargaining

spotTUSC councillor rejects Walsall cuts 'consultation'

Prisons

spotPrison work - £3 a day is exploitation for profit

Prison Officers Association National Chairman PJ McParlin addresses National Shop Stewards Network conference, 9 June 2012, photo Suzanne Beishon

Prison Officers Association National Chairman PJ McParlin addresses National Shop Stewards Network conference, 9 June 2012, photo Suzanne Beishon

Dozens of inmates at Prescoed prison in Monmouthshire are being bussed out to a call centre to work for just £3 a day. PJ McParlin gives the POA's response

spotWomen's prisons - Con-Dems' 'reforms' mean cuts and privatisation

spotNorway: Mass murderer Anders Breivik gets life sentence

Far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was found guilty of mass murders which he committed on 22 July 2011 in Oslo and at a youth camp of the governing Labour Party on the small island of Utøya

spotKazakhstan: Human rights campaigner Vadim Kuramshin freed

Reviews and comments

spotLeon Trotsky: A revolutionary's life

Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931

Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931

Book review: The 72nd anniversary of the assassination of the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was commemorated even within Britain's capitalist press...

spotFight council tax benefit cuts

spotThe 'madness' of building homes

Socialist Party news

spotNotting Hill carnival-goers support Lonmin miners

Socialist Party members joined thousands of Londoners at the Notting Hill carnival on Bank Holiday Monday, campaigning for solidarity with South African Lonmin mineworkers, writes Neil Cafferky.

spotSocialist Party summer camp

spotWhy I joined the Socialist Party

spotSave our computer server!