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Socialist Party news and analysis
Come to the NSSN conference – appeal from a trade union activist: If you are a shop steward, trade unionist, or anti-cuts campaigner – and if you want to fight attacks on our working conditions – then the National Shop Stewards Network conference is the place to go.
Having cut the taxes of the super-rich and giant corporations, Tory millionaire Chancellor George Osborne is planning to slash £5 billion from Child Tax Credit as part of the governments extra £12 billion cut in welfare spending.
Tower Hamlets election – Labour’s Mr Biggs wins
John Biggs, long standing Labour right-winger and veteran of the witch-hunt against supporters of the Militant newspaper (forerunner of the Socialist), has been elected mayor of Tower Hamlets with executive powers. This comes after the undemocratic removal of the previously elected mayor by central government.
“We kill people based on metadata.” General Michael Hayden, former director of the US National Security Agency and the CIA. Now our government wants to make gathering personal data easier still.
Orgreave: Police violence and cover-up whitewashed by IPCC
On 18 June 1984 thousands of riot police, many on horseback, brutally attacked a mass picket of striking miners at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. The victims are still struggling for justice.
Short dispatches on the incredible hypocrisy of the super-rich and their politicians.
Socialist Party feature
Just six weeks after the general election – on 20 June – people are flocking to London to show their opposition to austerity. But after the march – what next?
Socialist history
When organised mass action defeated the Tories
Liverpool city council’s historic victory over the Thatcher government has valuable lessons for today.
1985: How school students beat the Tories
30 years ago, the Tories tried to introduce a ‘Youth Training Scheme’ which conscripted us into working for our dole money. Young people rebelled in their millions and defeated Thatcher’s plan.
Socialist Party workplace news
Bakery workers fight pay freeze and other cuts
“Gunstones Bakery – 150 years in the making, three years to destroy!” commented a union steward
School kitchen workers win £9.15 an hour
Fighting mood from Unison delegates
Unison local government conference: the public sector union’s local authority conference on 14 and 15 June showed growing anger at leadership sell-outs and Tory attacks.
Fire service cuts a double-edged sword
Firefighters and 999 controllers in Essex struck overnight on 13 and 14 June. The action was the latest in a long-running dispute over staffing cuts and shift changes.
A gardener trade union rep has been victimised by his employers – the same Glasgow venue where his union’s annual conference is being held.
Short updates from across the trade union movement.
International socialist news and analysis
Turkey: historic breakthrough for left
Turkey’s political landscape was shaken on 7 June. On election night, the feeling of left and Kurdish activists mirrored that of the Gezi Park movement in the summer of 2013. The ruling right-wing, conservative AKP suffered a huge blow.
Short reports from socialist activities around the globe.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Youth Fight Austerity: protest on 8 July!
Tory Chancellor Osborne plans a bonfire of welfare, jobs and services. This will be a billionaires’ Budget – specially designed to transfer huge sums of wealth from working class people to the very richest. Join us on the protest!
Give us the resources to fight Tory attacks
Can you make a donation to support the Socialist Party and our struggle for a socialist alternative?
Asylum solidarity – Justice for Janahan
Tamil activist and torture victim Janahan faces horror if he is deported. Defend his right to stay!
Socialist Party comments and reviews
Fight back with the real socialists!
Why I joined the Socialist Party: The main reason I joined the Socialist Party was the support we got on the Kone engineering workers’ picket line, writes a shop steward.
The real health and safety ‘madness’
The Tories want more of us maimed or killed at work – this is the real health and safety madness.
