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Fight for mass action to end cuts and low pay
Britain needs a pay rise: How can we get it? When the TUC first organised their ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ demonstration on 18 October, it is hard to believe that they saw it as an integral part of a campaign of co-ordinated strike action
photo Paul Mattsson
End poverty, inequality and capitalism: “Britain needs a pay rise” is the demand of the TUC’s demonstration on 18 October. The first question to ask is “Which Britain?” The bosses don’t need a penny more – they are gorging themselves
Mark Serwotka: Building a strong, fighting union
The socialist-led Public and Commercial Services civil servants’ union is due to have an election for its general secretary. Bob Severn spoke to the current general secretary, Mark Serwotka, who is standing for re-election
Fight the cuts!
Hundreds of thousands are striking and marching for better pay. The thorny question of a political voice for this struggle is also on thousands of minds
Workers need a new party
How a mass campaign stopped the cuts
Challenging the austerity parties
Barking and Dagenham council at a crossroads
Socialist Party news and analysis
Tories and Labour in crisis after Ukip win
Cameron and Miliband woke up on 10 October with a common sense of dread. Both their parties have been left reeling at the results of byelections in which Ukip has dealt them a hefty blow to the face
72% of Ukip voters support renationalising rail – unlike Ukip! photo Paul Mattsson
International socialist news and analysis
Ireland: Stunning byelection victory for Socialist Party
11 October 2014 will be a day that’s remembered for years to come in Ireland. An estimated 100,000 marched in Dublin against water charges. On the same day, socialist Paul Murphy won the Dublin South West byelection
Paul Murphy (centre) celebrates his byelection victory
Obama’s strategy to beat IS lies in tatters
Obama and his western allies such as Cameron argue that a policy of air strikes alone could defeat the advances made by ‘Islamic state’ (IS) forces in Iraq and Syria
Socialist Party workplace news
First NHS pay strike for 30 years
On 13 October, NHS workers in six unions – Unison, Unite, GMB, Royal College of Midwives (RCM), Ucatt and British Association of Occupational Therapists – went on strike for four hours, the first NHS pay strike for three decades
Members of RCM outside Newham hospital, East London, photo Helen Pattison
Local government pay: reject offer, reinstate action!
Care UK workers mark 81st strike day
Doncaster Care UK strikers celebrated their 81st day of strike action on Friday 10 October with an overnight sleep-out outside the company offices followed by an indoor solidarity rally
600 St Mungo’s housing workers to strike for a week
Recycling workers strike over pay and conditions
Severfields engineers strike against bonus cut
Youth Fight for Jobs
Young workers say: decent jobs now
Millions of workers are ‘on the breadline’. That was the damming picture painted in a recent episode of the BBC documentary series Panorama. The programme gave us the story of Jason – a fast food worker
Youth Fight for Jobs supporters marching for jobs and decent pay, photo Sarah Wrack
If you have friends or relatives in the construction industry, you know exactly what the Tories mean when they boast about how they have got workers “off benefits and into work”
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
‘Political awakening’ continues in Scotland
Over 10,000 participated in the Hope Over Fear pro-independence rally called by Tommy Sheridan in Glasgow’s George Square on 12 October
One of the Generation Fightback stalls at the Hope Over Fear rally, photo GF
Workers in Waltham Forest are among some of the poorest in London. So the call for an immediate, big pay rise that rang out loud and clear from the Waltham Forest Trades Council motorcade really resonated
After spending a year playing in Northampton, 35 miles outside Coventry, the recent return of Coventry City Football Club (CCFC) to Coventry’s Ricoh Arena was welcomed by football fans across the country
If you believed a word from London’s Tory mayor Boris Johnson, you might think he was committed to building affordable housing
Building the Socialist Party
We need YOU to join the Socialists!
The trade unionist: I became involved with the Socialist Party over a period of time. It became obvious to me that the system does not work for most people
GMB members on strike, photo S O’Neill
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