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The Socialist issue 833

12 November 2014

We can win £10 an hour

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The Socialist issue 833

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotWe can win £10 an hour

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

The St Mungo’s strike victory shows we can beat low pay, photo Paul Mattsson


spotSocialism ’14: infused with contagious confidence

spot‘A magical fairyland’ of corporate tax avoiders

More shocking revelations about tax avoidance by giant corporations have just been revealed

spotWhat recovery? Thousands more jobs axed

spotThem & Us

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

spotAfghanistan 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

spotMid-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

spot25 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

After the fall of the wall, Berlin 1989


Socialist Party youth and students

spotBuild the education fightback

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 Students on the march, photo Paul Mattsson


spotFight for our future!

Socialist Party workplace news

spotSt 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

October 2014 St Mungo’s Broadway strike, in Hackney, photo Paul Mattsson


spotCare UK workers to ballot on 2% pay deal

spotSheffield recycling: ‘We’re out until the boss is out’

spotCrane drivers tell HTC: It’s time to pay up!

spotFight JCB’s 150 job cuts

spotLondon RMT: Vote John Reid

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotLeading 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

Speakers at the Scottish TUSC conference, November 2014, photo SPS


spotLeicester 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

spotExhibition 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

Disobedient Objects, photo V&A


spotTheatre Review: United We Stand

spotLittle charity from high paid care bosses

Low wage Britain: Five million workers in Britain are on low pay. I’m one of them

spotLabour – 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%

spotFlawed maths of the bedroom tax

Obituary

spotHeulwen Davies 1960-2014

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

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