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Socialist Party news and analysis
Osborne’s budget cuts will devastate low-income households
The Tory chancellor’s budget of £12 billion extra welfare spending cuts will have a terrible impact on low-income households.
Chancellor Osborne’s savage attack on welfare benefits has been accompanied by accusing low-income families of a ‘something-for-nothing’ culture. But how then does the government explain the ‘corporate welfare bill’?
Short dispatches on the utter hypocrisy of the bosses and their politicians.
Severely disabled funding hit by Tories
Disability rights campaigners, furious at the government’s spending cuts, took their protest into the House of Commons on 24 June during Prime Minister’s Questions. They were stopped from entering the chamber by police.
Government reneges on rail modernisation pledge
Last week transport secretary Patrick Mcloughlin announced that Network Rail’s £38.5 billion modernisation plan for Britain’s railways has been postponed. This underscores the government’s intentions of yet more savage cuts in public spending.
Warrington TUSC councillor slams ‘undemocratic’ Labour administration
The Labour administration at Warrington Council has tried to stifle democratic debate.
International socialist news and analysis
Solidarity with Greek workers! Reject EU austerity
Events in Greece have thrown the entire eurozone into crisis and threaten its very existence. Workers in the beleaguered country must reject the austerity dictates of European money lenders.
Terrorist attacks: working class people pay the price
The cold-blooded slaughter of 39 tourists in a Tunisian beach resort was carried out in the run-up to the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London. But who laid the basis for the hornets’ nest of bloody sectarian conflict in parts of the Middle East?
Socialist Party features
How to fight the anti-union laws
Britain’s anti-union laws, already among the most restrictive in Europe, are set to get even harsher. Trade unions must be ready to defy these laws – and to call a general strike in defence of any union punished for doing so.
Ten years since the London 7/7 bombings
7/7, in 2005, was a terrible nightmare. In rush hour traffic in London, suicide bombers attacked three underground tube trains and a bus. Now, the Tories will try to use the memory of 7/7 to justify proposed anti-democratic legislation against ‘extremism’.
Socialist Party workplace news
Transport union RMT prepared for London shutdowns and First Great Western railway strikes at its AGM on 21 to 26 June
Britain’s biggest union to discuss leaving Labour
Britain’s largest trade union, Unite, will discuss making major changes to political strategy at its four-yearly ‘rules conference’ on 6 to 10 July.
Escalate strikes to fight council’s 90% sell-off
On the back of their shock general election win, the Tories think they are untouchable. In one borough in south-east London, they plan to outsource more than 90% of staff.
Scotland ferry ‘lifeline’ sell-off strike
West Scotland ferry workers struck on 25 June against privatisation and cuts to jobs, pay and pensions on their “lifeline” routes.
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Pride: we need politics, not just a parade
Today’s Pride, sponsored by Barclays, Boris Johnson, Asda etc. focuses on the commercial and personal, not the political. But what has big business ever done to fight homophobia?
£9,000 tuition fees legacy – debt and slave labour
Students graduating from university this year will be the first generation that faced £9,000 a year tuition fees over their three years. The Socialist Party campaigns for all fees to be scrapped.
Block Osborne’s Billionaire Budget
The Tory chancellor’s new spending cuts will hit young people hard. Join young activists in towns and cities across the country to protest on 8 July!
Victory against disabled transport cuts in Derby
Derby City Labour council has scrapped plans to change the school transport arrangements for children with special needs.
Victory for anti-fracking movement
Anti-fracking campaigners were celebrating after Lancashire County Council on 29 June voted down a planning application to extract shale gas – ‘fracking’ – at Little Plumpton, between Preston and Blackpool.
Shirebrook: united campaign against danger of division
A stabbing of a man walking his dog in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, the second in a month, has increased tensions in the ex-mining town.