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Socialist Party news and analysis
No cuts to our health service: Nurses and other health workers are furious at Health Minister Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that he will stop the measly, below inflation 1% pay rise next year
TUC demo in Manchester: 50,000 march against Tories demanding action on NHS, photo Paul Mattsson
Tories condemn us to the breadline
Cameron’s speech to Conservative Party conference confirms that he and the Tory Party faithful live in a parallel universe to the vast majority in society.
TUC demo in Manchester: 50,000 march against Tories demanding action on NHS, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist ideas are the Mail’s real target
With good reason big business is accustomed to the main political parties doing its bidding – legislating for easy profits from privatisation of public services, cutting corporation tax and undermining workers’ rights.
Tory MP Paul Maynard is concerned people might get a ‘food bank habit’. He said: “I do not believe that immediate food relief should be the role of the government…
Socialist Party review
Breaking Bad is an American TV mini-series which has now ended. It was only available on cable TV and DVD, and the final season on DVD will not be available in Britain until November.
Breaking Bad: Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in Episode 16, AMC Networks
International socialist news and analysis
US government: ‘Sorry, we’re closed’
Around 800,000 federal workers are furloughed – sent on holiday without payment. While their families are on zero wages from the federal state, the $174,000 annual income per member of Congress is untouched
Kshama Sawant, a working class political alternative, photo Socialist Alternative
The 1913 Dublin Lockout and its true legacy
“Crushing Larkin: The Tycoon Who Saved Dublin From Anarchy”. That was the headline splashed across the front page of the September 2013 issue of Irish magazine Business Plus
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Workers and youth: Unite against the far right
Unite the Union has initiated a demonstration in Liverpool on Saturday 12 October to show that trade unionists can and will organise to defeat the far right
Anti-EDL demo, East London, 7.9.13, photo Paul Mattsson
Scotland anti-bedroom tax conference
“The bedroom tax is now a dead tax walking” commented Tommy Sheridan in opening Saturday’s conference
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
Newport council destroys workers’ mural
Over 500 angry people protested on 5 October against Newport Labour council and Queensberry property developers’ destruction of the town’s Chartist mural.
Part of the Newport chartist mural depicting workers struggles which was smashed up by council developers, photo by Dave Reid
Hull students and workers agree: We need councils that fight all cuts!
More than 30 socialists of all ages met in Hull recently to hear Tony Mulhearn link the struggle of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s to the emerging battle to defend jobs and services in Hull today
London: Lessons of South Africa’s Marikana Massacre
Marking a year since the Marikana Massacre in South Africa, a London Socialist Party and Socialist Students joint meeting was held.
Socialist Party members strove might and main to collect over £20,000 for the fighting fund in the last three months, which included the holiday period
Build the fightback – sell the Socialist!
Angry about an autumn of austerity?: Sales and subscriptions of the Socialist reached 63% of the target for the July to September quarter, writes Sarah Wrack
Socialist Party workplace news
No to Royal Mail privatisation
The postal service is being taken out of public ownership and ripped to shreds by private institutions and investors, all hoping to make a fat profit from our 497 year-old national treasure
Royal Mail’s Coventry North Delivery Office taking 24-hours of strike action on Tuesday 27 August., photo Dave Nellist
Future Directions: Ten-day strike lobbies council
“We’re as strong and solid now as we were when we started” said one of the Unison stewards, in buoyant and determined mood
Future Directions workers on strike, 3.10.13, photo Hugh Caffrey
Firefighters rally against cuts
Probation officers ballot for action
Public safety is under threat by plans to break up and privatise the Probation Service in England and Wales, writes Chas Berry
