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The Socialist issue 802

13 March 2014

Bob Crow: A great fighter for the working class, 1961-2014

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The Socialist issue 802

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotBob Crow – A great fighter for the working class

The Socialist Party is shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the death of Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport union – an uncompromising fighter for the working class and a champion of many important causes

Bob Crow speaking at the NSSN's lobby of the TUC, 24.4.13 , photo N Cafferky

Bob Crow speaking at the NSSN’s lobby of the TUC, 24.4.13 , photo N Cafferky


spotStop the destruction of care in Britain

The underfunding of social care and the cuts in pay and conditions of care workers as a consequence of the government’s austerity measures is a national scandal

spotNHS – under attack from private vultures

The government has launched its biggest single privatisation of NHS services so far by inviting private companies to bid for £1.2 billion worth of contracts to provide frontline cancer treatment in district hospitals and care for the terminally ill across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

spotPolice spy inquiry must not be another whitewash

spotStop cuts and police repression in Tottenham!

spotThem & Us

Poverty safari: The idle rich used to go on big game safaris. Now it seems that ‘poverty safaris’ are all the rage

Socialist Party congress

spotPreparing for a mighty upsurge in class struggle

On 8-10 March the Socialist Party held its annual national congress in Clacton. Around 300 delegates and visitors attended the very successful event

Delegates at the Socialist Party 2014 national congress, photo Senan

Delegates at the Socialist Party 2014 national congress, photo Senan


Socialist Party workplace news

spotSolidarity with Doncaster care strikers

“Historic is an over-used word” said Unison officer Jim Bell, “but it really is historic that Care UK workers are striking 30 years on from the miners’ strike”

Doncaster Care UK workers striking in March 2014, photo A Tice

Doncaster Care UK workers striking in March 2014, photo A Tice


spotPCS: Building a fighting union leadership

spotLawyers walk out to defend legal aid

It is rare, if it happens at all, that those of us on the left attend protests and demonstrations with Tory party grandees among the speakers…

spotProbation workers to strike again

Around 400 members of the probation workers’ union Napo met in Birmingham last week where a second national strike in our campaign to defeat privatisation was announced

spotLabour council removes trade union facilities

On 1 April Carmarthenshire Labour-led council will be removing the trade union secondments for Unison, GMB and Unite

spotUnison higher education – fighting leadership needed

Unison’s Higher Education (HE) conference has, over recent years, been a small but significant opportunity to observe the growth of the mood to fight back against austerity attacks in the HE sector

spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotCampaigning on International Women’s Day

Campaigning in Leicester on International Women's Day, 8 March 2014, photo Hannah

Campaigning in Leicester on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2014, photo Hannah


spotSecond Maltby councillor for TUSC

Labour can’t even offer a candidate: Almost a year to the day after the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate Joe Robinson won a town council seat in the ex-mining town of Maltby, in South Yorkshire, TUSC has won a second seat, this time in Maltby East

spotTurkey solidarity protest

spotAnti-fracking campaign steps up in Lancashire

On 9 March hundreds of people marched through Manchester to protest against the plans for thousands of oil and gas wells throughout Lancashire

Readers’ comments

spotThe horror that was World War One

House clearing recently, I found a will written by hand by my grandfather dated 28 June 1916, three days before the Battle of the Somme, writes Pete Watson.

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