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Socialist Party news and analysis
Tories’ rags and riches Britain; Join the socialist fightback!
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. When Charles Dickens wrote his Tale of Two Cities, he saw a world divided by poverty and excess. But even his alcoholic anti-hero Sydney Carton isn’t a scratch on today’s super-rich soaks.
Tale of Two Cities – Youth Fight for Jobs protest against Workfare in Stratford’s Westfield shopping centre in London 25 February 2012 , photo senan
Teachers, firefighters, workers fighting back: Unite the strikes!
This autumn more and more workers are on the march. Or on strike. Or balloting to strike, writes Rob Williams
Firefighters national strike and demo London 16.10.13 , photo Ian Pattison
TUSC: 2014 local elections campaign launched
As George Osborne announced a further 10% cut in council funding for 2015-16 in this summer’s public spending review, Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps mockingly praised councillors for the ‘good work’ they were doing in “cutting their cloth more intelligently”
TUSC protest outside Camden town hall, March 2013, photo Neil Cafferky
Immigration Bill: Whipping up racism to cut our services
Council tax benefit cuts hit hard
A report by Labour says that 112 councils in England who responded to a freedom of information request have issued more than 156,000 court summonses to people in council tax arrears since April
Fight Tory plans to scrap lifeline for young
Cameron’s proposals to scrap benefits for under-25s is yet another attack on young people from this government of millionaires
Jobcentre staff struggling to cope
When the latest plans for cuts in benefits were announced, familiar trumpets were blown about the Work Programme and Mandatory Work Activity (MWA), writes Sean Dempsey
‘Help to Buy’ no solution to housing crisis
Anti-racism
Robinson drops EDL but not his bigotry
Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carrol, the two most prominent members of the English Defence League, have unexpectedly resigned from the EDL, writes Ben Roberts.
Anti-EDL demo, East London, 7.9.13 , photo by Paul Mattsson
Trade union-led anti-racist demo in Liverpool
On 12 October, thousands joined a national demonstration in Liverpool, called by Unite the Union following a series of attacks by members of the EDL
Police lock down city centre: There was an eerie feel walking into the centre of Bradford on the day of the EDL’s visit as the streets were practically deserted
Education feature
Why are our schools in crisis?
Headlines about the recent education report from the OECD blared that a quarter of adults in England have maths skills no better than those of a ten year old
Members of the teachers’ union NUT on the 26 March TUC demonstration, photo Suzanne Beishon
International socialist news and analysis
Workers and youth re-assert their political voice in South Africa
Leading WASP and Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) member Mametlwe Sebei will be a speaker at the Socialism 2013 rally being held in London on 2 November. Sebei spoke to the Socialist…
Mametlwe Sebei
Sri Lanka – ‘No to Chogm’ campaign
Among the Commonwealth’s stated ‘core beliefs’ are democracy and human rights. But democratic and human rights are being trampled on by the dictatorial regime in Sri Lanka, which is to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in November
Refugees perish in Mediterranean “cemetery”
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Join the party for the millions – not the millionaires
Cuts of £155 billion to services and benefits for the elderly, the young, workers and families are being implemented. Yet the wealth of the richest 1,000 people in Britain rose by more than that in the last three years alone!
The Socialist Party is asking all its members and supporters to donate to the Socialism 2013 Appeal
Save Kent’s children’s centres
Socialist Party workplace news
Probation officers to take on ‘failing Grayling’
Delegates and visitors gather in Llandudno this week for the most crucial Annual General Meeting in Napo’s 101-year history
Napo members protest against privatisation, photo NAPO
Time for national action on education