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The Socialist issue 834

19 November 2014

Workers unite to defend the NHS

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The Socialist issue 834

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotWorkers unite to defend the NHS

The People's March for the NHS, London, September 2014, photo Bob Severn

The People’s March for the NHS, London, September 2014, photo Bob Severn


spotSolidarity vital to defend trade union rights

Thirty years after the Miners’ Strike, the government has launched the biggest single attack on a trade union since Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher set her sights on the NUM

spotLeaked document reveals union busting plan

spotToxic mix in Rochester and Strood byelection

As we go to press, Ukip is widely expected to win the Rochester and Strood parliamentary byelection, overturning a Tory majority of nearly 10,000 polled by Tory MP defector Mark Reckless

spotRotten to the Greencore

Pay workers a living wage! That is the urgent demand in the fight against the relentless driving down of living standards in Britain’s low-wage economy

spotFraudster bankers couldn’t give a Forex

Just two years after the exposure of a series of fraudulent actions in the banking sector connected to the fixing of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), five banks have been collectively fined £2 billion by UK and US regulators for rogue traders’ successful manipulation of the foreign exchange market

spotThe beautiful game looking ugly

Yet again the world of football finds itself mired in a corruption scandal. This time it is over the Fifa (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) decision to allow Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup

spotThem & Us

International socialist news and analysis

spotUnreported Nigeria: Class struggle and inequality

When Nigeria is mentioned in the British press it is usually to report the horrors of Boko Haram’s latest terrorist attack or the – at least for now – successful battle against Ebola. However, there is another side to Nigeria – the magnificent history of struggle by the working class

A general strike against fuel price hikes in Nigeria

A general strike against fuel price hikes in Nigeria


spotIsrael/Palestine: Wave of rage answers new repression

The July-August brutal war on Gaza resulted in the slaughter of 2,200 residents. Since then the Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem have refused to return to ‘normal’ life under the occupation

Youth fight for jobs

spotWe can defeat low pay and zero-hours!

Protest 21 November: The Fast Food Rights campaign, organised by the bakers’ union BFAWU, Youth Fight for Jobs and others, has been causing a stir with our protests outside McDonalds, KFCs and Burger Kings across the country

Sick of Your Boss? Youth Fight for Jobs campaigning, photo Nancy Taaffe

Sick of Your Boss? Youth Fight for Jobs campaigning, photo Nancy Taaffe


spotFighting for decent working conditions

Zero-hour, minimum wage, and no chairs: The Conservative Party boasts it has ‘created new opportunities for youth’ and ‘got Britain working again’

Socialist Party workplace news

spotLabour councils attack organised workers

Hull: A year after determined Hull council trade unions stopped the worst attacks of a Labour-led council on it workforce, the council leadership is now preparing the way for a fresh onslaught

Hull rally, public sector strike 10.7.14, photo Hull SP

Hull rally, public sector strike 10.7.14, photo Hull SP


spotCampaigning against rail cuts and profiteering

spotPower station builders walkout over blacklisting

Construction workers protesting against the “blacklist” – used to punish workers in the industry for raising trade union or health and safety issues – shut the power station site at Carrington, Greater Manchester, on 17 November

spotLocal government unions accept shabby pay deal

spotUnison Wales FE strike ballot

Unison members in Welsh FE colleges have delivered a mandate to our union to ballot for strike action over pay

Housing crisis

spotRaging tenants evict rich landlord

When a 200 strong march of London’s New Era estate and their supporters posted a massive eviction notice on management’s door, no one believed it would happen five days later

New Era estate campaign

New Era estate campaign


spot‘We will not move!’

spotStudents’ victory in housing battle

Socialist Students in Coventry won a major victory for student accommodation on 11 November

spotBedroom farce

When the Con-Dems brought in the Bedroom Tax, they told us it was to get rid of ‘surplus rooms’ in social housing

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotTeacher and health worker take fight to Oxford council

Teacher Stella Collier and health worker James Morbin are standing for TUSC on the Blackbird Leys estate in city and county council by-elections on 27 November

Women hit by Oxfordshire's housing support cuts lobby the Tory council, January 2014

Women hit by Oxfordshire’s housing support cuts lobby the Tory council, January 2014


spotBitterne walk-in’s bitter win

Southampton TUSC supporters have been campaigning against the closure of a vital walk-in centre in Bitterne

spotNHS is going to the dogs

A student nurse approached Harrogate Socialist Party’s NHS campaign stall on 15 November

Readers’ comments

spotOwen Jones: no answers

Owen Jones, the celebrity, journalist and Labour member, spoke to a packed lecture theatre on 15 November

Owen Jones, photo Senan

Owen Jones, photo Senan


spotSocialism 2014

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