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Socialist Party news and analysis
Strike back against endless cuts: How can you tell when a Tory is lying? Their lips are moving. It’s an old joke but it surely rings true
Brighton Green referendum offers no alternative to cuts
Brighton and Hove’s Green Party leader Jason Kitcat wants to follow up last year’s attack on the city’s bin workers’ wages with further cuts in the council’s 2014-15 budget
Landlords, the real beneficiaries of benefits street
Channel Four’s infamous Benefits Street ‘documentary’ has featured a squalid four-bedroom rented home that is so riddled with damp that water runs down the walls
International socialist news and analysis
Davos: World capitalism means increased inequality
Behind the headlines and speeches trumpeting ‘economic recovery’, inequality is so blatant that even the capitalist leaders cannot ignore it
New mineworkers’ strikes in South Africa
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
We need councillors who stand up for us
On Thursday 22 May a little bit of history will be made. Hundreds of working class people – some of them already organised socialists, but many of them ordinary workers, trade unionists, young people, members of their local communities – will stand before the electorate and ask for votes
Plymouth TUSC plans for 2014 elections
On Thursday 16 January Plymouth’s Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) meeting of 2014 took place in preparation for the May elections where 19 seats are up for grabs
Stop London Underground cuts
Support the tube workers’ strikes
No closure of ticket offices – stop job cuts – no compromise on passenger safety: The battle lines are being drawn ahead of the tube strikes which start on 4 February. It promises to be the most polarised industrial dispute in London for decades
Determined strikes can stop London Underground in its tracks
With the Olympics a fading memory, London Underground (LU) intends to implement the years of austerity that it had to forgo in order to keep tube workers onside for the games
Socialist Party workplace news
University workers continue strike action over pay
On 23 and 28 January, University and College Union (UCU) members in the Higher Education (HE) sector again walked out over pay since October – but both strikes were for just two hours
Land Registry threatened with sell-off
The Land Registry has been a part of the UK civil service since 1862. However, a consultation currently underway threatens to remove the vast majority of it from the public sector
NUT activists meet to push for action
NSSN launched in south of England
The Socialist readers’ comments
The European Union Framework for climate and energy conference recently agreed, after much wrangling, only a timid response to the threat of climate change
Much against my better judgement I was persuaded to attend Radio 4’s Any Questions on Friday night (24 January) along with other comrades from the Socialist Party
Fight all cuts!
Derbyshire: ‘Old Labour’ cuts hurt just as much
Derbyshire county council’s recently elected Labour administration has announced £157 million of cuts over the next three years, attacking the most vulnerable in society
A glimpse of the response to the massive cuts to council services in Wales was highlighted this week by the direct action of one Carmarthenshire resident
Spelthorne residents demand fire cuts are stopped
Leeds Labour breaks bedroom tax promise
On 15 January, Leeds city council (LCC) sent bailiffs to a tenant who could not pay his bedroom tax
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Bakers union launches fast food rights campaign
On 25-26 January, activists from the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) met for their first young members’ conference in Blackpool
Socialist Party Northern region conference
As we waited for our room for the Socialist Party Northern region conference to be opened, we attempted to assure members that this cold and sleety weather was unusual for Gateshead
