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Socialist Party news and analysis
Strike against privatisation: It is no surprise that the Con-Dems are rushing the privatisation of Royal Mail through as quickly as they can. They face overwhelming opposition.
CWU official picket armband, photo Paul Mattsson
Britain: a seething cauldron of class anger
The historic defeat of Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to bomb Syria was only the latest in a long list of crises, but Labour is failing spectacularly to forge ahead in the polls.
TUC demo 26 March 2011 – for a 24 hour General Strike now, photo Senan
David Cameron’s 2010 election slogan was: “I’ll cut the deficit not the NHS”. Unfortunately for us, since he became prime minister of the Tory-led coalition, the National Health Service (NHS) has been savaged.
Lively demo against cuts at Whipps Cross Hospital, photo Paul Mattsson
We went to an anti-bedroom tax meeting in Manchester. The UN officer was there to see how the bedroom tax is affecting people.
Leeds anti-bedroom tax demonstration 21 April 2013 , photo Mid Shelley
Hillsborough: even more cover-ups revealed
Militant newspaper 21 April 1989 issue 941, on the Hillsborough disaster
MPs still have their snouts in the trough
MPs still have their snouts in the trough – cartoon by Alan Hardman
Protest against the Israeli government’s attacks on Gaza 24 November 2012, photo Paul Mattsson
When they let their guard down, politicians can reveal their true colours…
Socialist Party youth feature
Anger at zero-hour contracts in universities
Rent-a-prof?: Sports Direct, McDonalds, Wetherspoons, Cineworld and… Britain’s universities. Many people were no doubt shocked to hear that the use of zero-hour contracts is endemic not just among employers in retail
Student occupation continues at Sussex 13-3-13, photo Brighton and Hove Socialist Party
Socialist Party workplace news
Second seven-day strike at Hovis
Hundreds of bakers in Wigan are mounting a second seven-day strike against casualisation [update added on 18 September]
Warrington town hall unions lobby councillors
Strikes force One Housing Group into talks
One Housing Group workers, members of Unite, on a second three-day strike against massive pay cuts, photo Naomi Byron
Warrrington bus drivers on strike, September 2013, photo .
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Lively demo against cuts at Whipps Cross hospital
A stream of nurses, domestics, porters, doctors, technicians, paraded back and forth over the zebra crossing outside the hospital
TUSC campaigners look to shake Fleetwood
Ray Smith is the prospective candidate for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the forthcoming Fleetwood town council byelection in Rossall Ward, writes Jane Hersey.
Scotland: Bedroom tax close to death
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
Wolverhampton councillors slash jobs
Wolverhampton council has announced it is seeking 1,000 voluntary redundancies, and if they were not forthcoming it would be making them compulsory
Overwhelming opposition stuns Hull council
Hull city council workers have stuck an enormous two fingers up to the cuts. They have rejected the worsening of terms and conditions which management was trying to force on them
Leicester council feels the pressure
One week left to smash fighting fund target!
The Socialist: Swansea achieves subscription goal
As part of the ‘year of the paper’, Swansea Socialist Party was determined to meet its target for subscriptions
International socialist news and analysis
Commonwealth governments’ meeting: Protest against despot Rajapaksa
Tamil Solidarity is at the forefront of protests against this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka, in November, writes Keerthikan Thennavan, Tamil Solidarity joint national secretary.
Kazakhstan: Jailed activist awarded human rights prize
Imprisoned human rights lawyer, Vadim Kuramshim, has been awarded the 2013 Ludovic-Trarieux Human Rights Prize, the “oldest and most prestigious award given to a lawyer in the world”
Oppositionists condemn murderous Iran regime
Socialist Party comments and reviews
TV review: Vietnam’s ‘children of Agent Orange’
The deadly chemical Dioxin was 40 years ago dropped from airplanes by US troops over the countryside of Vietnam
Agent Orange in Vietnam: chemical weapons used by USA have now caused 150,000 childbirth defects according to the Vietnamese Red Cross, photo BBC i-player screen shot
A Trade Union Congress (TUC) press release after Miliband’s speech to Labour conference shows how ties with the Labour Party hold back trade union struggle.