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Socialist Party news and analysis
When Tory Chancellor George Osborne presented his Autumn Budget Statement what he served up wasn’t so much a speech as a load of lies spun together with well-rehearsed anti-working class hoopla. The Socialist unravels some of the Con-Dems’ claims..
RMP protest July 2012, photo by Paul Mattsson
Prepare to resist austerity in 2013
Millionaire Tory Chancellor Osborne began his Autumn Statement speech with excuses for economic predictions reduced from 0.8% ‘growth’, to -0.1%, a contraction, and lower forecasts for years…
PCS president Janice Godrich addressing the lobby of the TUC, 11.12.12, photo Paul Mattsson
Gove goes to war on teachers’ pay
We have to urgently announce a programme of escalating national strike action in defence of teachers’ pay, writes National Union of Teachers (NUT) executive member Martin Powell-Davies
Fracking – gas profit dash could wreck climate
Merry Christmas from Starbucks
United Socialists of America: A recent poll by Gallup in the US has shown that 39% of Americans now view socialism positively.
Socialist Party NHS campaigning
Student nurse says: Give us the resources to provide care!: A recent report flagged up rising death rates and a chronic bed crisis in the NHS. The next day, the national press vilified nurses as uncaring and lacking compassion.
Saturday 24 November, defying cold driving rain, up to 10,000 residents and staff marched to defend Lewisham Accident and Emergency (A&E) and linked arms around it., photo Socialist Party
International socialist news and analysis
South African miners’ struggle
‘An historical faultline’: The recent determined struggle of South African miners, who have braved bloody repression by state forces, has created political shockwaves throughout the country…
South African miners on strike 2012
Mass protests in Egypt against Mursi and his reactionary constitution
Kazakhstan: Free Vadim Kuramshin!
Sri Lanka: Solidarity with Jaffna students
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Socialist Women plan campaigning for 2013
On 5 and 6 January a Socialist Party national women’s meeting will take place. In the lead up to this two regions of the Socialist Party report on similar meetings they have organised
Protesting against council cuts
Brixton byelection, south London: We want a candidate we can count on
A very Them & Us Christmas quiz
How much attention have you paid to the ‘Them & Us’ column in the Socialist? Try our 20 questions of 2012 to find out.
Great offers from Socialist Books
We have many books which would make good presents for your family and friends – both political and less political – and we have selected just a few here.
Socialist Party workplace news
Tesco drivers successfully blockade distribution centre
With confidence high after Saturday’s march and picket, Doncaster Tesco drivers upped the anti on Monday in their dispute with Tesco/Stobarts, writes Alistair Tice.
Striking Tesco drivers on the picket line , photo A Tice
Striking against ‘mock Ofsteds’
Bristol postal workers fight bullying
Blacklisting: ‘we will fight for justice in every way’
National Shop Stewards Network chair, Rob Williams, recently interviewed Dave Smith, a blacklisted construction worker.
Readers’ comments
Austerity UK: ‘I want to live, not just exist’
An ambulance worker fighting the proposed closure of his ambulance station told me recently: “I want to live, not just exist.” As a single mother, struggling to even ‘exist’, I understand this sentiment, writes a public sector worker.
20 October 2012 TUC demo against austerity, photo Paul Mattsson
Rob Williams, NSSN national chair, replied to an article “The British have no fight in them any more” by Nick Cohen in the 9 December Observer..
