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19 June 2012
Bristol Central Socialist Party: Art and Politics
Should we just view art aesthetically, or see it as a product of its historical context? Is art stifled in class society, and can it be a force for social change? Dan Smart looks at the relationship between...
17 May 2012
Work programme not reducing long-term unemployment
Unemployment statistics published yesterday show that the number of people who have been unemployed for more than one year is up 27,000 in the last three months, reaching a total of 887,000...
16 May 2012
The phone-hacking scandal: profits, power and corruption
The Leveson inquiry into phone hacking has gone to the heart of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, exposing its rotten and corrupt workings. Peter Taaffe reviews Dial M for Murdoch, a book detailing the scandal and its consequences.
16 May 2012
Rebekah Brooks reveals Murdoch's reach into the heart of government
More than just good friends: Many people will have felt a sense of relief when it was announced that Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World (NoTW) and chief executive of News International, is to face charges of perverting the course of justice, writes Ben Norman.
11 May 2012
Tesco imposes two year increase in pension age
As public sector workers fight to defend their pensions by inspiringly taking strike action, one large private sector employer has managed to waive through pension changes without so much as a whimper from the shopworkers' union Usdaw
9 May 2012
Duncan Smith throws insults at Remploy workers
Tory Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has claimed that disabled Remploy workers are "not doing any work...", writes Pat Atkinson, Unite LE 1111 branch.
9 May 2012
MPs find Murdoch "not fit" to run media empire
A select committee of MPs has declared Rupert Murdoch "not fit" to run an international company after concluding that he displayed "wilful blindness" to illegal phone hacking practices across his media empire, writes Ben Norman.
2 May 2012
Leveson exposes links between Tories and Murdoch
The Ministers and the Mogul: It was a line which perhaps only the world's most powerful media magnate could have the audacity to use, writes Ben Norman.
24 April 2012
Remploy workers take the fight to parliament
"Maria Miller, factory killer!" was the chant heard outside DWP (Department of Work & Pensions) as Remploy workers took their campaign against factory closures to central London...
24 April 2012
Scrap the act! Unions must call national demo to save NHS
The private health industry has given the Tories £8.3 million since 2001 - and what do the Tories want to give them in return? Billions of pounds of profits from the destruction of our NHS, writes Paul Couchman, Surrey Unison branch secretary (personal capacity).
23 April 2012
Claps and cheers greet Remploy marchers in Sheffield
On Friday 20 April hundreds of Remploy workers and members of the public gathered in Sheffield to show their opposition to the government's plans to close Remploy factories
18 April 2012
Time to fight the attacks on pay and working conditions: From workfare to Sunday trading hours, to shop closures and redundancies, issues affecting the retail sector have featured prominently in the national news over the last few months, writes an Usdaw member.
18 April 2012
The Con-Dem attacks on the welfare state and workers' rights bear down particularly heavily on disabled people, writes Neil Cafferky.
4 April 2012
Wales: Challenging the establishment parties
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing candidates in Swansea for the 3 May council elections on a platform of opposing all cuts, no matter which party is carrying them through
29 March 2012
MMP callously announces Bootle plant will close
Workers at the Mayr Melnhof Packaging (MMP) plant in Bootle have been told by their employer that the plant will be closed
28 March 2012
Save the Remploy factories - not for sale or closure at any price
The closure of 54 Remploy factories potentially can affect everyone in the UK. Disability can strike anyone in any socio-economic group, at any time.
28 March 2012
NHS pensions vote: Unison members working in the health service will be voting on whether to accept new pensions proposals, in a ballot running from 11-27 April...
22 March 2012
Government accepts bankrolling RBS but not Remploy
There was more clarity last week on the issues that surround the Con-Dems' proposal to end supported employment in Remploy
MMP Packaging workers still locked out, photo by Stillshooter
21 March 2012
MMP packaging: workers still locked out
149 workers at Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) in Bootle, Merseyside have been locked out of their workplace in a dispute with management over planned redundancies
21 March 2012
Super rich suffer cash piles: It seems that 'Broke Britain' ain't so broke. Cash holdings of big companies in Britain are standing at £731 billion. That's cash sitting in banks not being invested because of 'lack of confidence...
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