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Socialist Party news and analysis
Raise the minimum wage: £10 NOW
“If we are to stop future generations spiralling into never ending poverty, we have to support and more importantly campaign for a minimum wage of £10 now”
£10 Now! photo Senan
Abuse scandals reveal abusive system
“Trust me, I’m a politician. Now, you’re really having a laugh” was how Andrew Rawnsley put it in the Observer (13/7/14). Never before have the institutions of British capitalism been so distrusted.
Scotland: Threat of a Yes majority forces concessions
The independence referendum campaign in Scotland is approaching its concluding two months with opinion polls still showing a lead for the No side – 57% compared to 43% for Yes
Cherry Groce – Met apologises 29 years later
End police racism: Early one morning in September 1985, police smashed their way into a family home with a sledgehammer and shot an innocent, unarmed mother in front of her children
Con-Dems and Labour fast-track ‘snoopers charter’
Prime Minister David Cameron is rushing a new ‘snooper’s charter’ through parliament. Using the threat of terrorism as a pretext, the law contains wide-ranging surveillance powers
Tough at the top: Poverty pay and the cost of living crisis are the big issues for many workers and their families. But for those at the top, life it seems couldn’t be better
10 July public sector pay strike
J10 strike success: Now build movement to end low pay
“Work should pay, not keep you in poverty.” After 10 July no one could be in any doubt that low pay is a major issue in Britain
At the Trafalgar Square rally on the 10 July 2014 public sector pay strike, photo Paul Mattsson
Reports from 10 July pickets and demonstrations
NSSN: Packed out London J10 post-demo meeting
International socialist news and analysis
The trapped, blockaded 1.8 million people in the Gaza strip have been viciously bombarded from air, sea and land, and the slaughter is going on
Demonstrating outside the Israeli embassy in London, 11.7.14, photo Paula Mitchell
Solidarity protests against Israeli state terror
Socialist Party workplace news
Tyneside Safety Glass strikers’ stunning victory
After three weeks of strike action TSG strikers have won a tremendous victory against tight-fisted bosses who had offered an insulting 0% pay increase
Tyneside Safety Glass workers celebrate pay dispute victory, July 2014, photo Elaine Brunskill
Eve-of-strike success for Look Ahead Unite members
After weeks of negotiation and an escalating threat of industrial action, with a seven-day strike due to start on 9 July, Unite LE1111 members working in the four Hackney Look Ahead mental health services were finally made an offer that they considered acceptable – and what a victory!
Napo election: militant strategy can defeat privatisation
National vice-chair elections in Napo (which organises family court and probation workers) run from 18 July to 22 August. There are three candidates contesting two positions
Reports and comments
Leicester anti-cuts councillors join up with TUSC
Two Leicester anti-cuts councillors have joined up with the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the ever-widening fight against the establishment parties and their austerity policies
Leicester councillors Wayne Naylor and Barbara Potter, photo Leicester TUSC
Royal Mail: Profits for rich, insecurity for workers
A cross-party parliamentary committee has looked into the 2013 privatisation of the 60% of Royal Mail that was then in government hands
Socialist Party members are still reeling at the news of John Hayes’ sudden death after falling from scaffolding outside his home
SWP’s Marxism: absence of serious debate and strategy
‘Marxism’, the annual ‘festival of ideas’ hosted by the Socialist Workers Party, does not have a good record for open and democratic discussion
