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Socialist Party news and analysis
Syria: Cameron defeated; Now defeat Tory cuts!
“I get it.” Through gritted teeth Tory Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged an historic defeat. MPs had just voted by a margin of 13 to oppose British participation in a military intervention in Syria
United strike action against the Con-Dems
Twelve months ago TUC Congress overwhelmingly passed the prison officers’ union POA motion, calling on the TUC to consider “the practicalities of a general strike” to oppose the crushing Con-Dem austerity offensive
NSSN lobby of the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton, photo Socialist Party
Don’t fall for the shares-for-rights scam
International socialist news and analysis
When the world economic crisis makes landfall in S Asia
Until recently, the ’emerging’ economies of the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – were growing at a steady rate, writes Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI).
Socialist history
1993: BNP racists forced off Brick Lane
Twenty years ago, on Sunday 19 September 1993, 1,000 people gathered on Brick Lane in Tower Hamlets, east London, to stop the racist, far-right British National Party (BNP) from having its regular paper sale.
Tower Hamlets school students striking on 9 March 1994 against racist attacks, photo by Andy walker
Socialist Party reviews
Police spies and the workers’ movement
Hannah Sell examines the role and the background to police spy Peter Francis as revealed in the book Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police.
Protest outside Scotland Yard, 9.7.13, photo N Caffferky
TV review – MLK: The Assassination Tapes
There’s been no shortage of material in the mass media commemorating US black civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s (MLK) landmark 1963 ‘I have a dream’ speech in Washington
MLK: The Assassination Tapes – Film about Martin Luther King’s assassination shown on BBC Four
Socialist Party workplace news
Blacklist defeat – Frank Morris reinstated on Crossrail
Blacklisted Unite shop steward Frank Morris is returning to work on the Crossrail project. This is a massive victory, not just for Unite but the whole of the trade union movement
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Hovis bakers on 7-day strike against massive pay cuts and casualisation
Wigan Hovis bakers on seven-day strike against massive pay cuts and casualisation, photo Hugh Caffrey
Carers at Future Directions continue their fight
Future Directions care workers on strike, August 2013, photo Hugh Caffrey
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Council leader announces ‘no bedroom tax evictions this year’
North Lanarkshire, a Labour run council, that sent out letters threatening to begin eviction proceedings, has been forced into a big retreat
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
Build partnership in action against austerity
Miliband expected to promise repeal of bedroom tax
Whipps Cross is one of many hospitals mired in crisis. Following a merger with three other hospital trusts, Whipps Cross is run by the Barts Health NHS Trust, which is crippled by PFI debts
Lift the ban on campaign stalls in Newham, east London
Newham council has effectively banned community activists from publicly campaigning against punitive attacks
Burston strike school celebrated
London protest against attack on Syria
Bristol TUSC – we’re fighting the cuts
A weekend of discussion and debate
London 2-3 November 2013