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The Socialist issue 836

3 December 2014

The bitter pill of cuts to come

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The Socialist issue 836

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotThe bitter pill of cuts

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

Austerity is failing, photo Paul Mattsson


spotOsborne’s solution deficit

£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

spotNHS: the money’s running out

Tories’ £2bn funding lie: The money is running out – at Medway Foundation Trust in Kent, maybe as early as January

spotTower 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?

spotTerrorism 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

spotThem & Us

International socialist news and analysis

spotWorld 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

spotCare 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

Protesting outside the London offices of Care UK owners Bridgepoint, photo by Paul Mattsson


spotHull 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

spotCollege UCU strikes against imposed new contracts

spotLambeth College strike dates named

spotNorthern 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

spotTrelleborg engineering pay victory

spotReports from the NSSN bulletin

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotAngry 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

Russell Brand leads protesters on the New Era estate demo outside Westbrook offices in Mayfair, photo Paul Mattsson


spotSixth 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

spotStop academies in Lewisham

spotCrown 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

spotNo justice, no peace: protest stops London streets

Pulsing with outrage, arms lifted high, they chorused: “hands up – don’t shoot!”

spotNeighbours 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

spotHelp 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

TUSC supporters in Rochester, photo SP North Kent


spotMore socialists needed!

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

Reader’s comment

spotZero-hour contracts: Demeaning rules and poverty pay

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