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Socialist Party news and analysis
Floods 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
What future for Labour and the unions?
Fast 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
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
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Sheffield kicks off election year with 7.6% vote
The only people smiling at the Sheffield Arbourthorne byelection count were the TUSC campaigners
Standing 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
Waltham Forest: Rally for rent control
Lewisham 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
Tube 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
London tube stoppages show workers can win
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
State 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
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
Posties 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
Higher Education: Striking for an improved pay offer
Reviews and readers’ comments
The Square: bravery and disappointment in Egypt
David Johnson reviews the film The Square (el Midan, subtitled in English)
Housing 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
Don’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
2004 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
Tebay 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
Councils 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
Brighton 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
Leicester 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
WASP: South African elections announced
Harrogate: Harrogate may be one of the smallest Socialist Party branches but we have a regular Socialist Party town centre stall