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Socialist Party news and analysis
With angry voters to face, Tory hopes that Chancellor George Osborne could deliver significant budget tax cuts as pre-election sweeteners are off the menu
Austerity is failing, photo Paul Mattsson
£50 billion cuts still to come: Budget statements are about party politics as much as economics. Especially this one: six months before the general election. But this time there have been few ‘election sweeteners’, because the government’s own strategy of ‘eliminating the deficit’ is failing
Tories’ £2bn funding lie: The money is running out – at Medway Foundation Trust in Kent, maybe as early as January
Tower Hamlets: Government attacks local democracy
Tower Hamlets hit the news when Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles threatened to send in government commissioners. How can councils fight the cuts and is the use of commissioners a threat to councils who do fight?
Terrorism Bill: May continues job started by Blair
The government’s latest attacks on civil liberties, masked as anti-terrorism laws, are not only dangerous for trade unionists, socialists and social justice campaigners; they reinforce the very causes of ‘extremist radicalisation’ they aim to stop
International socialist news and analysis
World health crises show: Capitalism kills!
Ebola: Doctor and Socialist Party member Jon Dale updates on the latest situation in the Ebola crisis
Socialist Party workplace news
Care UK: Inspirational struggle for all trade unionists
After 90 days of strike action since February, Doncaster Care UK Unison members voted to accept the company’s pay offer
Protesting outside the London offices of Care UK owners Bridgepoint, photo by Paul Mattsson
Hull city council: a tale of two surveys
Hull City Council senior officers have provocatively sent out a staff survey clearly designed to give them authority to slash council workers’ terms and conditions
College UCU strikes against imposed new contracts
Lambeth College strike dates named
Northern line RMT stoppage over sacking
2014 started with a strike on London Underground’s Northern line, part of a system wide strike against ticket office closures, and it’s ending with another strike on 1 December
Trelleborg engineering pay victory
Reports from the NSSN bulletin
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Angry New Era tenants take protest to Cameron
Around 500 angry New Era estate tenants and supporters marched from Westbrook (multinational owners of New Era estate) headquarters in Mayfair, central London, to hand in a nearly 300,000 signature petition to David Cameron
Russell Brand leads protesters on the New Era estate demo outside Westbrook offices in Mayfair, photo Paul Mattsson
Sixth form students grill Grayling
During Tory Justice Minister Chris Grayling’s flying visit to Greenhead College in Huddersfield on 14 November, sixth form Law and Politics students put him on the spot on a number of issues
Crown drops charges against protest pensioners
A protest planned outside Sheffield Magistrates Court is now partly a celebration. Cases against pensioners George Arthur and Tony Nuttall, the “freedom riders” arrested at Sheffield railway station, have been dropped
No justice, no peace: protest stops London streets
Pulsing with outrage, arms lifted high, they chorused: “hands up – don’t shoot!”
Neighbours defend disabled man from eviction
A local community in Newcastle came out to defend a disabled resident threatened with eviction on 27 November. His rent arrears had been under control – until compounded by the bedroom tax
Socialist Party appeal
Help us fund historic election challenge
The Socialist Party is launching an appeal for £50,000 to help fund our candidates in the 2015 elections
TUSC supporters in Rochester, photo SP North Kent
Can you help the Socialist Party grow by 100? To paraphrase Marx, many people become so disturbed by the effects of capitalism after reading the news that they give up reading. Groucho that is – not Karl
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Zero-hour contracts: Demeaning rules and poverty pay
A day in the life: I worked at a bar in a major airport. It reminded me of my early school days. Collecting a green pass, the badge of responsibility at work, took about three months