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Socialist Party news and analysis
Osborne’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!
Reject the lie that is austerity
Europe: 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
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
Tenants 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
Climate 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
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
Uprising 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
London 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
1,000 firefighters march to defend Ricky Matthews
Rail franchise jobs: TUPE or not TUPE?
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
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
Socialist 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
Election 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
Tower Hamlets: Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in east London, proposed closing four local nurseries in September
Socialist Party comments and reviews
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
Broadband 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