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Socialist Party news and analysis
Pay victories celebrated at Socialism 2014: Socialist Seattle city councillor Kshama Sawant brought the house down at Socialism 2014 in London on 8 November.She spoke about her election victory and the successful campaign she led to win a $15 an hour minimum wage in Seattle
The St Mungo’s strike victory shows we can beat low pay, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialism ’14: infused with contagious confidence
‘A magical fairyland’ of corporate tax avoiders
More shocking revelations about tax avoidance by giant corporations have just been revealed
What recovery? Thousands more jobs axed
Cuts without end: Millionaire Chancellor George Osborne boasted to a baying audience at Tory party conference in October that he was slashing an extra £25 billion from public spending and a further £12 billion from welfare payments
International socialist news and analysis
Afghanistan war: A legacy of death and destruction
British combat troops were finally pulled out of Camp Bastion on 27 October, 13 years after the start of the US-led disastrous invasion and occupation of Afghanistan
Mid-term elections do not mean shift to right in US
The significant gains made by Republicans in the mid-term elections, in particular taking control of the US Senate, have caused alarm for working class and progressive people across the country
Socialist history
25 years after the Berlin Wall fell
Was capitalist restoration inevitable?: While, for millions, the 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall is celebrated as a great victory for democratic rights, the official celebrations to mark its 25th anniversary have been dominated by anti-socialist propaganda
After the fall of the wall, Berlin 1989
Socialist Party youth and students
Students marching on 19 November 2014 will rightly be asking what the next steps are for our movement today. How can we rebuild an effective movement to challenge the government and end austerity in education?
Socialist Students on the march, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party workplace news
St Mungo’s strikers celebrate victory
Unite convenor Adam Lambert speaks about the victory against draconian attacks on pay, conditions and union rights
October 2014 St Mungo’s Broadway strike, in Hackney, photo Paul Mattsson
Care UK workers to ballot on 2% pay deal
Sheffield recycling: ‘We’re out until the boss is out’
Crane drivers tell HTC: It’s time to pay up!
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Leading Scottish trade unionists back TUSC
Some of the leaders of Scotland’s most combative unions were gathered at a significant Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) conference on 1 November
Speakers at the Scottish TUSC conference, November 2014, photo SPS
Leicester party building school
Our party is not funded in the same way as the mainstream parties – we don’t get corporate handouts. We rely on the money we raise through campaigning
Reviews and readers’ comments
Exhibition review: Disobedient Objects
This exhibition takes people on a journey through protests around the world and across time through objects, protest art and design
Disobedient Objects, photo V&A
Theatre Review: United We Stand
Little charity from high paid care bosses
Low wage Britain: Five million workers in Britain are on low pay. I’m one of them
Labour – the singer or the song?
The Con-Dems are the most unpopular government in living memory. Yet Labour’s lead limps between 1% and 4%
Flawed maths of the bedroom tax
Obituary
Heulwen Davies passed away suddenly on 30 October after suffering a stroke and then a heart attack while out walking, one of her favourite pastimes