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The Socialist issue 828

8 October 2014

Striking to end low pay

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The Socialist issue 828

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotWe need ideas to change the world

And once the budget deficit was wiped out, everyone lived happily ever after. Only in a Disney film, right? Don’t be surprised if Tory ogre George Osborne gets a cameo role

We need ideas to change the world

We need ideas to change the world


spotNHS – The black hole

spotUK – A tax haven for the super-rich

spotThem & Us

International socialist news and analysis

spotSouth Africa: “A workers’ party must emerge”

Barely one hundred days since the re-election of the ANC government, there is widespread speculation that President Jacob Zuma will not see out his second term.

Flying the CWI flag in South Africa, photo DSM

Flying the CWI flag in South Africa, photo DSM


spotMiddle East: Repel IS and Western imperialism

Fight for democratic workers’ defence and Kurdish self-determination: The plight of ordinary Kurds and others living in Kobane in the Kurdish area of Syria, surrounded and besieged by the Islamic State (IS), fills everyone who sees the brutal methods of IS with horror

spotCoordinated attacks on Hong Kong movement

spotEbola crisis: Consequence of profit before health

spotStop corporate plunder of Bangladesh energy

Socialist Party workplace news

spotWe can beat the pay freeze!

The national vice president of the PCS civil servants’ union, John McInally, spoke to the Socialist about the 13-15 October strikes and the strategy needed to defeat the public sector pay freeze

At the Trafalgar Square rally on the 10 July 2014 public sector pay strike, photo Paul Mattsson

At the Trafalgar Square rally on the 10 July 2014 public sector pay strike, photo Paul Mattsson


spotPublic sector: why we have to strike

The October week of action is not before time: we have all suffered under a massive onslaught of job cuts and pay cuts since this Con-Dem government of the rich for the rich came to power

spotRMT tube workers join October action

RMT transport workers’ union has called a 48 hour strike on 14-15 October as the union continues to fight against London Underground’s (LU) plans to cut around 900 jobs and reduce grades and pay-rates across stations on the tube

spotTeachers: Pay rise? What pay rise?

spotSupport Care UK day of action

spotSheffield: Green workers red with anger

Money for old rope! Trade unions suspect that the boss of the ‘charity’ company running Sheffield’s recycling centres is taking excessive consultancy fees and expenses out of the accounts

spotM25 maintenance workers protest

M25 maintenance workers protested on 8 October outside Balfour Beatty offices in central London against attacks on terms and conditions. Unite’s Malcolm Bonett explains the situation

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotTraining tomorrow’s trade union militants

The East Midlands region ran a successful event to help train newer Socialist Party unionists how to work effectively in their union

Young workers and trade unionists marching for jobs, photo Paul Mattsson

Young workers and trade unionists marching for jobs, photo Paul Mattsson


spotFinance to fight for the future

A central theme of the East Midlands finance school, held on 5 October, was the need to prepare for the future

spotSchool students organise disabled rights meeting

spotIce cream, you scream, we all scream for £10 now!

Shop window posters boldly proclaiming “A Half-Price Mr Whippy Ice Cream – Happy Hour” provided part of the backdrop to a Socialist Party stall in Weymouth

Readers’ comments

spotExhaustion from buzzer to buzzer

You wake up in the morning after a bad night’s sleep: you were worrying about work, writes A factory worker.

spotBedroom Tax: Still making tenants’ lives hell

spotScotland: Workers need a new mass party

Labour’s treacherous role in fronting the successful ‘No’ campaign in the independence referendum has made trade union members eager to hit Labour in the pocket

spotCorrection: Labour’s private health links are worse!

Following our article on ‘Labour: no real alternative’ in last week’s issue of the Socialist we received an email from the corporate communications manager of private health company Bupa

spotThatcher’s enemies within

Obituary

spotAndrew Price: Fighter, teacher, party campaigner

Andrew was an inspirational figure and tenacious fighter who played a leading role in the labour movement and was a stalwart of the Socialist Party

Andrew Price

Andrew Price


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