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Socialist Party news and analysis
Government set back over Independent Living Fund
I was part of a successful legal challenge to the Tory-Lib Dem government decision to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF) by April 2015, writes Stuart Bracking.
TUC demonstration in Manchester against Tory Party conference 29/09/13 demands Save our NHS, photo Paul Mattsson
NHS crumbling in Con-Dem Britain
Benefit sanction figures expose Tory lies
On 6 November, the DWP issued figures for Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and Employment Support Allowance (ESA) claimants sanctioned under new rules brought in from October last year, and last June, writes an advice centre worker.
As we go to press, a Labour motion calling for the bedroom tax to be abolished at once is being debated in parliament
Hull protest against the Bedroom tax, photo Lash
Forever and ever: Austerity set to last until 2020? Wrong! It’s going to persist until 2030 according to rapacious capitalist bean counters, PwC. This forecast exceeds David Cameron’s sanguine perspective of austerity
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
TUSC: We need councillors who refuse to implement cuts
Councils have experienced one of the biggest government ‘departmental cuts’ with 27% slashed by 2014-15 compared to 2009-10
Hackney Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidates, photo Hackney TUSC
Socialist Party workplace news
BAE takes the axe to shipyards: Defend every job
The shocking news that 1,775 jobs will go at BAE in Glasgow, Fife, Bristol and Portsmouth has angered thousands of workers, writes Chris Pickett, Portsmouth Trades Council, personal capacity.
BAE Shipyard in Govan, Glasgow, photo by wiki commons: user:bjmullan
Nationalise to defend the shipyards
Portsmouth BAE workers rally to defend all jobs
Probation officers plan more action
NSSN lobby and rally of the TUC congress 2013 – Martin Powell Davies, photo Paul Mattsson
Blacklist Support Group demonstrates
International socialist news and analysis
US election campaigns: Socialists make history
The US is seen as the home of capitalism, the world’s richest and most powerful nation. But it is also home to millions of working class people who are struggling to get by, let alone live the American Dream
Kshama sawant and Ty Moore, photo by Socialist Alternative (USA)
Sri Lanka: spotlight on a blood-stained regime
With the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) taking place from 10 to 17 November all eyes are on Sri Lanka
Tamil Solidarity protest scored a victory when Sri Lanka president Rajapaksa canceled his speaking engagement (13-06-2012), photo Sarah Sachs Eldridge
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
A small victory for democratic rights
Socialist Party members in east London are celebrating a small but important victory over Labour-run Newham council’s effective ban on public campaign stalls in the borough, writes Simon Carter.
Waltham Forest: campaigners scored a previous victory with a mass stall protest for the right to campaign, photo Sarah Sachs-Eldridge
Young workers say: Zero hours no way!
Further to the reports in last week’s issue of the Socialist on the hugely successful Socialist Party’s annual weekend of discussion and debate, Socialism 2013, the Socialist has received some more positive feedback from readers
South African socialist speaks in South Wales
The meeting room in central Cardiff was packed with trade unionists and young socialists to hear Mametlwe Sebei, of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, the Socialist Party’s sister organisation in South Africa) – active in supporting the South African miners’ strikes and building the new Workers and Socialist Party (WASP)
TUSC film showing – Riot from Wrong
Hackney and Islington Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) held a very successful showing of the film ‘Riot from Wrong’ and presented some of its candidates for the 2014 council elections
Socialist Party reviews
Russell Brand – reasons to be cheerful
Sometimes celebrities and popular figures reflect a mood in society at a particular moment without being fully conscious themselves of what they are expressing, writes Nancy Taaffe, Prospective TUSC candidate for 2014 council elections.