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Socialist Party news and analysis
Energy bills have risen by 40% since 2007. 15% of households are living in fuel poverty – crushed by bills and facing an impossible choice: food or fuel? Pete Mason writes.
Energy companies emit vast amounts of greenhouse gasses
Tax dodging corporations profit from casualisation
Big business puts profits before environment
Tory millionaire tells Britain: ‘Back to the workhouse!’
Millionaire chancellor George Osborne announced at Tory conference a plan to keep the country on rations until 2020! Ken Douglas writes.
Socialist Party NHS campaign
On 29 September well over 50,000 protesters descended on Manchester to tell the Tories that they and their policies are not welcome in the city. Earlier in the day, Socialist Party members from across Greater Manchester had taken part in a 400-strong feeder march from Salford, writes Matt Kilsby, Salford Socialist Party
TUC demonstration in Manchester against Tory Party conference 29/09/13 demands Save our NHS, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party reviews
TV review: Locked up for being ill?
A recent BBC Panorama episode, ‘Locked up for being ill?’, looks at the growing police involvement in supporting people with mental health problems, writes Helen Pattison.
Locked up for being ill: BBC Panorama
Theatre review: A man of humble beginnings
Socialist Party editorial
Capitalist parties offer nothing to the 99%
What we say: Tory conference has not yet heard from Prime Minister David Cameron but already it’s apparent that the crucial words “Even more misery” have been omitted from the conference centre’s billboard
TUC demonstration in Manchester against Tory Party conference 29/09/13 demands Save our NHS, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialism 2013
Socialism 2013 – a weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party
* Fight against crisis, cuts and capitalism
* Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November 2013
* Rally for Socialism 6:30pm on Saturday
Socialism 2013
Socialist Party workplace news
Solid support for teachers’ strike
Teachers in the Midlands, Yorkshire and Eastern regions walked out today in an impressive show of strength
Teachers on strike in Leicester on 1 October, photo by Heather Rawling , photo by Heather Rawling
Firefighters’ four-hour strike – determined and clear that coordinated action needed
Surrey FBU firefighters at the Kingston strike rally, photo Surrey SP
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
28 percent for TUSC in Fleetwood
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
Lincoln: 400 march against Library cuts
Around 400 protesters marched in Lincoln on Saturday 21 September to save 32 Lincolnshire libraries from closure
The fight against academies in Leicester
International socialist news and analysis
Greek government forced to take action against neo-fascists
The right-wing New Democracy (ND) and ex-social democratic Pasok coalition government in Greece has finally decided to crack down on the neo-fascist Golden Dawn after the recent murder of left-wing rapper Pavlos Fyssas, writes Xekinima reporters.
Activists demand full public inquiry into undercover police operations
Sudan: ‘Down with the regime!’
Qatar: End this modern-day slave labour
Fifa, the world football authority, has expressed concerns about players enduring temperatures of 50°C in the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar, but already the extreme heat and appalling ‘slave labour’ working conditions have killed many migrant workers building the country’s stadiums and infrastru, writes Dave Carr.