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Socialist Party news and analysis
Huge support for Corbyn: now build austerity fightback
As the Socialist goes to press, the result of the Labour leadership election has not been announced. But one thing is clear, the wave of support for Jeremy Corbyn marks a pivotal change in British politics.
Solidarity with refugees – Defend the right to asylum
125,000 renters abused by idle parasite landlords
According to housing charity Shelter, over 125,000 renters suffered harassment, threats or assault by a landlord in the last year. And these are just one charity’s figures.
Heartless Tories chop funds for life-extending cancer drugs
Tories allow bosses to keep exploiting workers at below the minimum wage
The Tories have announced new measures to supposedly combat companies paying below the new £7.20 minimum wage. But in reality the measures are paltry.
Short dispatches on the different worlds of capitalists and workers. Rebekah Brooks returns to top job as poor people are encouraged to wrongly plead guilty. Refugee crisis, train station loo charges, British Airways pay cut scandal.
Bromyard Community Hospital victory
The in-patient unit at Bromyard Community Hospital, which was set to close, has been saved after the Wye Valley NHS Trust board backed down due to pressure from staff and the local community.
International socialist news and analysis
The gains of the revolution of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro are under threat.
Short stories on workers’ struggles around the world. Malaysia protests, Northern Ireland government crisis, India general strike.
Socialist Party features
How students can fight debt, cuts and sell-offs
Students face massive attacks: on our wallets, on our courses and on our future. How can we can fight back, writes How students can fight debt, cuts and sell-offs?
Children suffer as the cuts deepen
Are schoolchildren getting more badly behaved? If so, why?
Workplace news and analysis
Lobby the trade union leaders this Sunday!
As TUC delegates meet in Brighton, the Tories will be trying to sneak their anti-union Bill through another parliamentary stage
Nominate a fighting socialist for Unison general secretary
Interview with Unison general secretary candidate Roger Bannister
Most important TUC Congress for decades
The Trade Union Congress meets in Brighton from 13-16 September in the most important Congress since 1984.
In a victory for the campaign led by Unite, restaurant chain Pizza Express has announced that it is to drop the 8% admin fee it takes from staff tips.
Buses fightback works in Sheffield
Campaigning by Socialist Party members and TUSC has helped a rethink on some of the cuts proposed by the Sheffield Bus Partnership.
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Strikes at EDF, Blue Coat Academy and Camden parking wardens.
Fight against blacklisting in Liverpool
The construction of the new Royal Liverpool hospital is being undertaken by the blacklist using company Carillion. Activists protested against union victimisation.
Socialist Party comments and reviews
New film writes out major characters – people who led the Stonewall riots, and subsequent movement for LGBT liberation and equality, but are less palatable to whitewashed Hollywood.
Why I joined the Socialist Party
A Kent social worker is attracted to the Socialist Party’s fighting stance after betrayal by Labour.
A potentially traumatic health crisis recently showed Socialist Party and trade union activist Paul Couchman that the NHS is still functioning well at weekends, thanks to NHS staff, not to Tory cuts.