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The Socialist issue 799

19 February 2014

Floods Chaos: End cuts now!

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The Socialist issue 799

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotFloods chaos: End cuts now!

The misery continues. As we go to press there are still 118 flood warnings and 166 flood alerts. Four people have died. Thousands of houses and properties are under water

photo Chris Moore


spotFloods reveal rottenness of government cuts

Climate change policy failure: Commenting on the most exceptional period of rainfall since records began 248 years ago, the Met Office’s Chief Scientist, Julia Slingo, has said that “all the evidence suggests there is a link to climate change”

spotHigh rents + low wages – End this housing misery

‘Generation rent’ is becoming more like ‘three generations rent’. The website spareroom.com has recently revealed that in 2013 more than 60,000 over-40s placed ‘room wanted’ adverts on the site

spotScotland: ‘Project Fear’ goes into overdrive

The growing conflict over Scottish independence has dramatically escalated following the coordinated intervention by the main pro-union parties

spotAffordable childcare? And where are the jobs?

spotBarclay’s bonuses – laughing all the way to the bank

It has been announced that Barclays Bank is to cut 10,000-12,000 jobs in 2014, 7,000 of which will be in the UK

spotThem & Us

International socialist news and analysis

spotBosnia: mass protests show potential of working class

A revolt of workers, students, the jobless and war veterans has swept across Bosnia Herzegovina, in protest at dire economic and social conditions and institutionalised ethnic division

Socialist Party workplace news

spotDoncaster care workers vote for seven-day strike

Care UK workers in Doncaster have voted by over 90% for serious action against attacks on pay and conditions

Angry care workers take to the streets, photo Duncan Brown


spotCare worker action escalates in Glasgow

The Glasgow care workers strike action is growing stronger and more solid. After taking two 48-hour strikes in January nearly 400 Unison members involved completed a 72-hour strike over the Valentine’s weekend

spotRuncorn: Workers’ solidarity scores victory

There was an unofficial walkout by construction workers at Runcorn thermal power station on 13 February in another dispute over safety issues on the site in north west England

spotNewham primary school strike over new pay scheme

Teachers on strike on 12 February 2014 over changes to pay, photo Bob Severn


spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotTime to strike the bedroom tax a killer blow

Across Britain the implementation of the bedroom tax has created seething anger

Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax, photo Jim Halfpenny


spotService users “terrified” by cuts in Worcester

80 people whistled, rattled and jeered at a midday protest as Worcestershire county council voted to cut £98 million of services

spotKent: Marching to save children’s centres

Save Kent Children’s Centres campaign, Canterbury, Saturday 15th February 2014, photo Pete Fry


spotAnti-cuts councillor exposes devastating cuts plans

spotCouncils pass on Tory pain

Lewisham Labour mayor Steve Bullock’s council policy is cuts, cuts and more cuts. There have already been £82 million of them, £17 million are planned after May’s council election

spotMedway council will “rue the day” they attacked library

Over 60 people attended a public meeting in Strood, one of the Medway towns in Kent, on 15 February to discuss the next moves in a grassroots campaign to save the local library

spotFast Food Rights day of action

In Newcastle we had an excellent Fast Food Rights day of action on 15 February. We staged a protest outside McDonalds which included activists from Youth Fight for Jobs and the bakers union BFAWU

spotStop the deportation of Jermaine Strachen

spotSocialist Party conferences prepare for year ahead

Wales: Around 50 Socialist Party Wales members from all parts of the country held a very successful annual conference in Cardiff on 16 February

The Socialist readers’ comments

spotWorking nights is bad for your health

For years scientists and trade unions have compiled a growing body of evidence, warning of the dangers of night shifts

spotCuts make the job impossible

I work for the police as a call handler. I have to work shift patterns that include nights. We provide a service over 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

spotCycling deaths must be stopped

Britain’s cyclists have seen another bad week for safety. The police responded to the last surge in fatalities in London cycling by ordering a clampdown on cyclists. Nick Auvache investigates

spot‘Criminal’ waste and ‘legal’ waste

A lot of food is wasted in Britain. At farms, ‘wonky’ vegetables are rejected; at warehouses huge amounts of packaged foods are discarded because of split packets or minor blemishes

spotCampaign against “Lobbying Bill”

The Transparency of Lobbying, Third Party Funding and Trade Union Administration Bill (Lobbying Bill) will become law shortly

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