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Socialist Party news and analysis
10 July: All out to end poverty pay
It’s official: local government workers in Unison have voted to strike on 10 July (J10) against the Con-Dem government’s pay freeze
Western hypocrisy as Iraq disintegrates
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) continues making territorial gains, controlling much of western Iraq along the border with Syria and has captured Iraq’s largest oil refinery
Blame the profit system not its victims!
Miliband attacks young unemployed: In the same week that a new TUC report showed the dismal job prospects for young people in Con-Dem Britain, due to the miserable failure of British capitalism to invest, Labour leader Ed Miliband has launched yet another attack on us
NHS: The world’s best – but for how long?
The National Health Service (NHS) is the best healthcare system in the world!
Miliband – the emperor with no clothes
Labour leads in the opinion polls, just, but normally, a year before a general election, if an opposition is to win it should be further ahead
Since the defeat of the miners’ strike 30 years ago successive governments have continued the work started by Thatcher to take back all the gains in living standards previously won by workers
Socialist Party review
Review: ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ The poorest fifth of Britain’s households are among the most economically deprived in Western Europe with living standards on a par with Slovenia and the Czech Republic
International socialist news and analysis
Hong Kong: Pro-Beijing newspaper attacks socialists
The pro-Beijing newspaper, Ta Kung Pao, recently ran a front-page attack on pro-democracy legislator Leung Kwok-hung (known as ‘Long Hair’) and Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong).
Israel: Nationalist thugs assault CWI members
Protest in Tel Aviv against military raids: On 21 June dozens of protesters – Jews and Arabs, including Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) activists – held a demonstration in front of the defence ministry in Tel Aviv
Socialist Party workplace news
How can Unite lead fight against cuts?
Around 700 delegates and 100 youth observers will attend Unite’s policy conference that begins on 30 June and will set the union’s agenda for the next two years
Unison conference: members call for united action
Unison conference, which met on 18-20 June, was dominated by three debates: strike action over pay, the Labour Party and a lack of democracy on the conference floor
GMB members question Labour link
You can tell the general election is less than a year away when Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves and three other senior Labour politicians descend on GMB congress to whip up the Labour vote
Safety Glass strikers demonstrate their strength
Ritzy Cinema strike: Ritzy Cinema workers in Lambeth from the BECTU union were out on strike for a seventh time last weekend in demand of a living wage from Picturehouse Cinemas
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
People’s Assembly demo shows anti-austerity anger
On 21 June, a demonstration called by the People’s Assembly marched to parliament to show opposition to austerity
South Yorkshire ‘Freedom Riders’ attacked by police
Fighting for young people in Blackwall and Cubitt Town
Victory! York socialists win university letting agency
York Student Socialist Society recently won a major victory. Our proposal for the student union at York university to open its own letting agency will become reality from August.
Tottenham: Stop fascist attacks
Winning recruits for socialism
The Socialist Party’s recruitment week was very successful. We carry reports on two of the best results
Grimsby Socialist Party members supported UK Uncut protests against Vodafone on 14 June. The local store was forced to shut up shop that afternoon due to the protest’s success
Readers’ comments
In March Sainsbury’s posted the first drop in like-for-like sales in nine years, the Co-operative group went into meltdown, and Morrisons announced £176 million in pre-tax losses for 2013
A day in the life of a supermarket worker
I work for Tesco in a busy city centre shop. Sales figures in my shop are high, but morale is low. Like all retail workers, we are underpaid
Socialist history
When Thatcher unleashed her attack dogs
30th anniversary of the miners’ strike: Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) during their year-long (1984-85) battle against pit closures and mass redundancies faced the full might of the state from the Tory Thatcher government
Obituary
Gerry Conlon: Fighter against state injustice
The death of Gerry Conlon in Belfast has been met with mass sympathy across the world as people are reminded of the British capitalist state’s vile injustice against the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven