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The Socialist issue 798

12 February 2014

Floods misery: Government cuts to blame

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The Socialist issue 798

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotFloods misery: Government cuts to blame

While thousands of homes and shops are waist deep in toxic water, and flooding hits new areas, government ministers indulge in a blame game

photo Chris Moore


spotWhat future for Labour and the unions?

spotFast food workers want decent pay and conditions

A new campaign aims to win rights for fast food workers. A recent Unite the Union survey showed that scandalously 5.5 million workers in Britain are on super-exploitative zero-hour contracts

spotNHS: Kick out big Pharma

Last week the Socialist published a feature article on the National Health Service – ‘Big Pharma’s deadly grip’ – which showed how profit hungry multinational drug companies are bleeding the NHS dry

spotThem & Us

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

spotSheffield kicks off election year with 7.6% vote

The only people smiling at the Sheffield Arbourthorne byelection count were the TUSC campaigners

Sheffield Arbourthorne byelection 6.2.14 , photo A Tice


spotStanding up against cuts in Reading

A Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) meeting on 4 February agreed to stand candidates for upcoming local elections in Reading and Wokingham

spotWaltham Forest: Rally for rent control

spotLewisham Labour no use in the Lions’ Den

Millwall fans have reacted angrily to Lewisham’s Labour-run council agreeing the sale of land around the football club’s New Den stadium to developer Renewal

London Underground dispute

spotTube strike first round: Trade Unions 1 – Johnson 0

As we go to press a second planned 48-hour London tube strike has been called off. The RMT and TSSA rail unions suspended their industrial action after London Underground (LU) bosses have been forced to

Kings Cross, 5.2.13, photo Helen Pattison


spotLondon tube stoppages show workers can win

spotEffective action builds

Kings Cross underground normally opens its gates at 4.50am. But the strike was 100% solid – not one worker was in and the doors were staying shut

spotState attacks trade union action

The RMT strike on 6 February saw one of the most serious attacks by the state on trade union organisation in decades

Socialist Party workplace news

spotTeachers call national strike

The next NUT national strike will be on Wednesday 26 March. Every NUT rep and officer now needs to be spreading that news and building for a mass show of strength

spotPosties vote yes – where now for postal workers?

Postal workers across the country have overwhelmingly voted in favour of two national agreements, the ‘agenda for growth, stability and long-term success’, along with a new pension agreement

spotHigher Education: Striking for an improved pay offer

spotWorkplace news in brief

Reviews and readers’ comments

spotThe Square: bravery and disappointment in Egypt

David Johnson reviews the film The Square (el Midan, subtitled in English)

spotHousing crisis hell: a worker’s view

Go back far enough and the council was the major landlord in the borough I work in. It built new homes and maintained them as well, with its own direct labour organisation

spotDon’t trust Labour with our NHS

Last week’s centre pages of the Socialist were an excellent explanation of the terrible damage wreaked upon our National Health Service by all three main parties and especially by the current Coalition’s Health and Social Care Act

spot2004 Morecambe Bay tragedy: Has anything changed?

It is now ten years since the horrific tragedy of the 23 Chinese cockle pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay

spotTebay disaster: Workers’ grievances can’t be sidelined

Ten years ago, 27 men and women merely making a living were killed because of their employers’ sheer irresponsibility

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotCouncils continue making Con-Dem cuts

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has pointed out that while the economy may officially be in recovery, most of us are experiencing the complete opposite – and more than half of the Con-Dems’ cuts are still to hit

spotBrighton solidarity with LGBTQ+ Russians

On Saturday 8 February, the first full day of the winter Olympics in Sochi, over 100 people in Brighton showed their solidarity with Russian lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and other people being oppressed as a result of Russia’s anti-gay laws

spotLeicester Socialist Student arrested in peaceful protest

On 6 February a Leicester Socialist Students member was arrested when taking part in a peaceful protest in support of striking university workers

spotWASP: South African elections announced

spotBuilding the Socialist Party

Harrogate: Harrogate may be one of the smallest Socialist Party branches but we have a regular Socialist Party town centre stall

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