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Socialist Party news and analysis
Cold, cruel cuts: Fight the Con-Dem attacks
The government onslaught of attacks on the sick, disabled and terminally ill looks set to increase rapidly
Disabled people and their families protest in central London against government spending cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
The Con-Dems’ Machiavellian cuts
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), a replacement for Incapacity Benefit, was introduced in 2008 for paying benefits to those too ill to work or with a disability
All main parties in crisis: where will the opposition go?
It’s not just Russell Brand attacking the political and economic elite this time, but also wealthy Hollywood actress and former Labour supporter, Emma Thompson. These celebrities have captured the mood of a layer of young people and workers who are totally disillusioned with all the main parties
Pressure mounts on zero-hour contracts
Sports Direct, notorious for its widespread use of zero-hour employment contracts, has been forced to make clear in job adverts what its workers legal rights are
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Every penny counts: donate to Socialism 2014
Please make a donation to the Socialism 2014 appeal to support the work of the Socialist Party and the Committee for a Workers’ International
Placards, leaflets, book: Just some of the resources donations can help pay for
Bitterne walk-in centre in Southampton faces closure. The health centre is the only facility in the east of the city for urgent care and minor injuries
Carlisle: Stop the car parking tax
Carlisle’s “Stop the Parking Tax” campaign, in which Socialist Party members play a leading role, recently held a public meeting of 150 residents
Socialist Students campaign reports
Socialist Students is a campaigning organisation on campuses across the country supported by the Socialist Party
International socialist news and analysis
Ireland water tax: ‘We won’t pay’
11 October 2014 saw the opening of a whole new chapter in the struggle of the working class in Ireland, writes Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
Ireland: We won’t pay the water tax!
Burkina Faso: Mass uprising ousts dictator
After 27 years in power, Blaise Compaoré was planning to die in his presidential chair. But recent events have changed everything in Burkina Faso, one of the world’s poorest countries
Socialist Party workplace news
Back fresh strikes to save the NHS
None of the main parties will be satisfied until the NHS is a dried up, ruined husk. Cuts to pay and staff, and privatisation of facilities and services, mean soaring waiting times and plummeting care
NHS pay dispute: Dedication doesn’t pay the bills
Defend firefighters’ right to strike!
Victory to St Mungo’s strikers
Sheffield Green workers start indefinite strike
Library workers in Greenwich, south London, have scored a fantastic victory
Police staff ballot for decent pay
Police staff in the Unison, Unite and GMB unions are being balloted for strike action to win a 3% pay increase
London buses: London bus drivers in the Unite union have voted in a consultative ballot by 96% in favour of taking industrial action over sector-wide pay
Readers’ comments
Agree with Russell Brand? Join the Socialist Party!
When Russell Brand first said last year that none of the main parties were worth voting for he was vilified from all sides. But his mistrust of out-of-touch politicians, uninterested in the lives of ordinary people, is shared by millions
Russell Brand is actively supporting the campaign to defend New Era estate tenants, photo Paul Mattsson
Ebola virus crisis – no profit, no vaccine
In November 2010 the medical journal The Lancet ran a seminar on Ebola saying: “Previously, the usefulness of an Ebola virus vaccine was disputed, because of the disease’s rarity, little interest by industry, and the potential cost”
Repel the Tories’ attacks on our democratic rights
Portsmouth jihadis: austerity and alienation to blame
Nineteen year old Mehdi Hassan has become the latest young Muslim from Portsmouth to be killed in Syria
The article “Private companies hold NHS to ransom” (Socialist 830) showed how giant software companies can exploit their near monopoly position
Obituary
Benny Adams died after a long illness on 6 October, aged 65. Benny was active in Militant, the Socialist Party’s forerunner, in Northern Ireland from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s
Benny Adams (left)
