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The Socialist issue 837

10 December 2014

No return to the 1930s

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The Socialist issue 837

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotOsborne’s savage cuts: No return to the 1930s!

The Tories plan to send us back to the 1930s. The Office for Budget Responsibility said public spending levels will be thrown back 80 years if Osborne’s Autumn Statement plans are implemented

Stop the cuts!

Stop the cuts!


spotReject the lie that is austerity

spotEurope: a new wave of workers’ struggle has begun

Once again workers are in revolt against “elderly and haggard” European capitalism – as the Pope accurately described it

spotSave our NHS

Defend universal healthcare access: In response to the rising deficit of Devon NHS, smokers and obese individuals will be denied surgery unless they quit smoking, or lose 5% of their body weight

spotTenants can resist Scrooge landlords

Housing crisis: Last month, evictions hit record-breaking levels. According to the homelessness charity Shelter, more than 1,300 people are put at risk of repossession or eviction every day

spotClimate change: Sacrificing the future

On the same day the Met Office announced that 2014 is likely to be the hottest year on record, Tory Chancellor George Osborne’s budget gave tax cuts for the fossil fuel industry

spotThem & Us

Seasons’ greetings: Christmas, we’re told, is a time for giving and for families. And it appears to be Christmas all year for MPs’ spouses and relatives who were paid a total £3.7 million from the public purse

International socialist news and analysis

spotUprising against police violence in the US

“I can’t breathe”: Protests against police racism and violence are continuing across the US

Socialist Party workplace news

spotLondon bus drivers: Same job – we want the same pay!

London bus drivers in the Unite union are now being balloted for strike action for equal pay rates across the capital following a 96% ‘yes’ vote in a consultative survey

London bus drivers demonstrating for sector wide pay rates, 11.09.14, photo Paul Mattsson

London bus drivers demonstrating for sector wide pay rates, 11.09.14, photo Paul Mattsson


spot1,000 firefighters march to defend Ricky Matthews

spotStudents join Lambeth walkout

spotSharpak Yate packaging strike

spotRail franchise jobs: TUPE or not TUPE?

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotWe have a world to win!

Get ready for 2015 – join the socialists: When a BBC editor referenced George Orwell’s Road to Wigan Pier in his analysis of the Con-Dems’ Autumn Budget Statement he earned the wrath of Chancellor George Osborne

We are the 99%, photo Paul Mattsson

We are the 99%, photo Paul Mattsson


spotSocialist Students: fight for free education

On 6 January students from 25 universities and colleges around the country met in London for the Socialist Students national conference

spotElection appeal: finding cash to fight the cuts

The Con-Dem government is tearing itself apart following the chancellor’s autumn statement. Osborne promises further savage cuts as his strategy to reduce the deficit lies in tatters

spotCampaign news in brief

Tower Hamlets: Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in east London, proposed closing four local nurseries in September

Socialist Party comments and reviews

spotThe 1914 Christmas truce

100 year anniversary: “Here we were laughing and chatting to men who, only hours before, we were trying to kill!” These words from an astonished British soldier in World War One (WW1) sum up the incredible story of the 1914 Christmas truce

spotMockingjay: Part One

spotBroadband giants’ expensive battle

Paul Callanan’s article on football financing (issue 834) was illuminating. The almost complete dominance of big business (often from very shady business people) is only part of the problem

spotQuiz 2014

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