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Socialist Party news and analysis
Workers unite to defend the NHS
The People’s March for the NHS, London, September 2014, photo Bob Severn
Solidarity 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
Leaked document reveals union busting plan
Toxic 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
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
Fraudster 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
The 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
International socialist news and analysis
Unreported 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
Israel/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
We 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
Fighting 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
Labour 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
Campaigning against rail cuts and profiteering
Power 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
Local government unions accept shabby pay deal
Unison members in Welsh FE colleges have delivered a mandate to our union to ballot for strike action over pay
Housing crisis
Raging 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
Students’ victory in housing battle
Socialist Students in Coventry won a major victory for student accommodation on 11 November
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
Teacher 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
Southampton TUSC supporters have been campaigning against the closure of a vital walk-in centre in Bitterne
A student nurse approached Harrogate Socialist Party’s NHS campaign stall on 15 November
Readers’ comments
Owen Jones, the celebrity, journalist and Labour member, spoke to a packed lecture theatre on 15 November
Owen Jones, photo Senan
Around 1,200 people attended the Socialist Party’s recent discussion and debate event, Socialism 2014