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Socialist Party news and analysis
We 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
UK – A tax haven for the super-rich
International socialist news and analysis
South 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
Middle 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
Coordinated attacks on Hong Kong movement
Ebola crisis: Consequence of profit before health
Stop corporate plunder of Bangladesh energy
Socialist Party workplace news
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
Public 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
RMT 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
Teachers: Pay rise? What pay rise?
Sheffield: 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
M25 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
Training 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
Finance 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
School students organise disabled rights meeting
Ice 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
Exhaustion 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.
Bedroom Tax: Still making tenants’ lives hell
Scotland: 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
Correction: 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
Obituary
Andrew 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