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The Socialist issue 807

16 April 2014

Profit vultures out of NHS

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The Socialist issue 807

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Socialist Party election campaigning

spotHelp TUSC offer a no-cuts alternative on 22 May

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition national steering committee has approved a further swathe of no-cuts candidates to stand under the TUSC umbrella in the 22 May local elections

TUSC against cuts

TUSC against cuts


spotElection appeal: help us make history

spotMore cuts and another resignation in Southampton

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotProfit vultures out of NHS

Support striking Doncaster Care UK workers: “I’m proud to say I was born in Edlo. I was a teenager in the miners’ strike and I can remember the hardship a lot of people suffered because of it. But I also remember how everyone stuck together

The Socialist issue 807: Profit Vultures out of the NHS! Support the striking Doncaster Care UK workers, photo Socialist Party

The Socialist issue 807: Profit Vultures out of the NHS! Support the striking Doncaster Care UK workers, photo Socialist Party


spotEnding MPs’ expenses scandal requires socialist change

To anyone living outside the Westminster bubble it seems incredible that David Cameron actually believed he could save the career of the Tory MP and now ex-cabinet minister Maria Miller by offering her his ‘warm support’

House of thieves, photo Peter Symonds

House of thieves, photo Peter Symonds


spotCon-Dems escalate housing crisis

‘I don’t know how I’m going to be able to afford to live in London’. This phrase, is being heard across the capital as workers, especially the younger generations, struggle to cope with sky-high rents

spotTamiflu scandal exposes bloodsucking big pharma

spotPit closures: Final act of Tory vandalism

30 years after the historic miners’ strike against pit closures, the Tories are presiding over the axing of two of the last three deep mine coal pits in Britain

spotThem & Us

Cash cow: Asylum seeker deportee Jimmy Mubenga died in the custody of G4S security guards; armed forces personnel had to be drafted in to secure the London Olympic Games after G4S failed to provide enough stewards…

International socialist news and analysis

spot40 years of the Committee for a Workers’ International

Socialism and internationalism: Since the beginning of the 20th century every decade has witnessed revolutions as the working and poor masses attempt to end the oppression and exploitation they suffer under capitalism

Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) logo

Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) logo


spotIndia: massive election process could end in turmoil

New party expresses, but cannot solve, major discontent: India is halfway through its five week general election process. There are half a million candidates and more than 800 million potential voters. Nearly a million polling stations will have been opened

Socialist Party workplace news

spotGains for left on NUT executive

The election results for the NUT national executive for 2014-16 have seen a further loss of support for the ‘Broadly Speaking’ group on the right of the union

Members of the teachers' union NUT on the 26 March TUC demonstration , photo Suzanne Beishon

Members of the teachers’ union NUT on the 26 March TUC demonstration , photo Suzanne Beishon


spotStop the education catastrophe!

National strike action needed: A malaise is spreading throughout our schools. It’s hitting teachers young and old, male and female, primary and secondary.

spotHealth workers vote to fight government pay cuts

spotStrikers shut cinema in battle for living wage

“The Dude minds, man! This just won’t stand!” Workers at the Ritzy Picturehouse in London are fed up with poverty wages.

spotLet down by Welsh Labour

Bridgend council has withdrawn itself from national pay-bargaining – deciding unilaterally not to honour any agreed pay increase for 2014

spotRMT: Put the tube strike back on and escalate

The six weeks of talks since the tube strikes early this year have exposed London Underground (LU). It continues to demand 953 job losses and another 900 front-line jobs will become managers.

spotWorkplace news in brief

Pay victory: Low-paid hospital workers in west London have scored an important victory. 150 GMB members working as domestic, catering, portering and other staff working for Medicrest, part of Compass, were on £6.31 an hour

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotBeating Bedroom Tax evictions

In a clear signal that the bedroom tax is more trouble than it’s worth, even mean-spirited Basildon Tory council withdrew 35 out of the 36 possession orders it had listed at the court

One of the mass protests in the campaign to defeat the bedroom tax in Scotland, photo Socialist Party Scotland

One of the mass protests in the campaign to defeat the bedroom tax in Scotland, photo Socialist Party Scotland


spotNUS conference: sip tea or put up a serious fight?

From 8 to 10 April, the National Union of Students met for its national conference. The big debates offered delegates a clear choice

spotGoldthorpe: Anger at Thatcher’s destruction of mining

Goldthorpe miners anniversary march, April 2014

Goldthorpe miners anniversary march, April 2014


spotAnti-austerity demonstration called in Salford

spotMay Day greetings with the Socialist

Readers’ comments

spotHard loads – and a fightback – on the bins

I first became a union rep for Unite about a year ago but I have worked for the council on the bins for two and a half years. My job as a loader is hard physical work and can be very stressful, writes a bin worker.

Widespread support for the Brighton bin workers shown on some bins in the area, photo Support Brighton Council workers Facebook page

Widespread support for the Brighton bin workers shown on some bins in the area, photo Support Brighton Council workers Facebook page


spotWorking on zero-hour contracts

spotDisgusted at politicians’ big business links

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