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The Socialist issue 800

26 February 2014

Stop cuts carnage

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The Socialist issue 800

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotStop cuts carnage

Organise coordinated strike action: Dave Nellist, national chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and previously a socialist councillor in Coventry, shows that these cuts are far from necessary and can be stopped

Stop the cuts carnage!


spotEnd housing crisis: Rich landlords are real scroungers

Britain’s richest MP, Tory Richard Benyon – ‘worth’ £110 million – has slammed benefits as “something for nothing”. Yet who is living a life of luxury thanks to benefits? He is!

spotFloods show planning and investment needed

Britain has just had its wettest winter ever recorded. A couple of years ago it had one of its coldest

spotTony Blair: The not-so-secret adviser to the rich

Some establishment politicians become so adept at defending the indefensible during their time in office that they can amass a fortune from the skill after leaving

spotThem and us

Socialist Party feature

spotGreat 1984-85 miners’ strike remembered

Thirty years ago, on 1 March 1984 the closure of Cortonwood pit was announced, with five years’ production still to go

A miners rally in Northumberland, photo D Pearson


International socialist news and analysis

spotPresident ousted: what next for Ukraine?

The latest developments in the Ukraine saw the dramatic overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovich and his flight from Kiev, writes Niall Mulholland.

spotVenezuela: Chavism and the Right call for ‘peace’

On 12 February, three people (two right-wing supporters and one government supporter) were killed in Caracas and dozens injured and arrested in the protests and demonstrations that took place around Venezuela to commemorate the annual ‘Youth Day’

Socialist Party workplace news

spotPCS enters Scotland independence debate

Opposition to all cuts vital: The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has voted overwhelmingly to put opposition to all cuts at the centre of the debate on the referendum on Scottish independence, writes Philip Stott.

Rallying for a yes vote in Edinburgh as thousands march for an independent Scotland, photo M Dobson


spotHospital workers fight for fair pay

spotStriking seafarers make gains

spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spot‘Welfare reform’ – an avalanche of misery

“We must, as a society, face up to the fact that over half of people using foodbanks have been put in that situation by cutbacks to and failures in the benefit system, whether it be payment delays or punitive sanctions.” These aren’t the words of an opposition politician or an angry protester

5,000 people marched against the Welfare Reform Bill on 11 May 2011, photo Paul Mattsson


spotAtos – not capable of assessing work capability

Demo against Atos, St Helens, 19.2.14, photo H Caffrey


spotBudget bloodbaths show TUSC needed

spotNuneaton students demand proper wages and hours

Nuneaton YFJ protest outside MP's office


spotAppeal: Help Socialist Party offer real alternative

We are appealing to all our members and supporters to donate to the Socialist Party’s Congress 2014 fighting fund appeal

Readers’ comments and reviews

spotGenetic modification: A means of making profit

The Environment Minister Owen Paterson, in his speech at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference, said that Europe is risking becoming a ‘museum of world farming’ if it doesn’t open the door to genetically modified crops

spotWales: A Land of Whose Fathers?

Geoff Jones provides a bite-sized Marxist analysis to answer his question, “Wales: A Land of Whose Fathers

spotMarxism in Today’s World

This Christmas, one of my presents was the book Marxism in Today’s World by Peter Taaffe. This is an extended interview originally given in 2003 to an Italian Marxist, on the politics of the Socialist Party

spotFilm review: The Lego Movie

When anti-capitalism sells: A movie about Lego, the interlocking brick building toy? Is it some kind of joke? But the right-wing, Rupert Murdoch-owned, Fox News said the movie’s ‘anti-capitalist’ message is ‘pushing an anti-business message to our kids’

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