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10 April 2013
Thatcher death: readers respond 2
I went to get my morning newspaper and also needed a sympathy card for a relative. When I asked Shah, my local shopkeeper, where his sympathy cards were his eyes nearly popped out of his head
9 April 2013
Class survey diverts focus away from power of working class to change society
"Emergent service workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains" doesn't have the same ring to it, was one response to the recently published Great British Class Survey
Cartoon by Alan Hardman
8 April 2013
Thatcher's legacy: Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
3 April 2013
We must stop them!
The axe is about to be wielded again and this time it is a huge one. 'Black April' will see a further round of savage austerity, which will alter the very fabric of life, writes Peter Taaffe
28 March 2013
Amended document as passed by Socialist Party national congress 2013
1. As 2013 begins many political and economic commentators have suggested that 2012 was a 'groundhog year'. "British politics has got a bit stuck", declared Andrew Rawnsley (Observer 30 12 12)...
28 March 2013
9. British capitalism, and therefore the working class, faces a bleak future. Five years into the crisis, UK gross domestic product (GDP) is still 12-15% below the pre-crisis trend...
28 March 2013
45. Elections are one facet of the struggle against cuts. In the short term the most pressing issue is the campaign for a 24 hour general strike...
28 March 2013
55. It is not possible to judge whether this government will last its full term. One of Cameron's first acts on coming to power was to institute grossly undemocratic arrangements for five-year fixed parliamentary...
28 March 2013
62. We dealt with the question of migration in more depth in last year's perspectives document. The census results give a picture of the changed makeup of Britain's population...
28 March 2013
70. Whenever the general election comes it is most likely that Labour will come to power, either with a majority or as part of a coalition with all or a section of the LibDems...
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard, photo Paul Mattsson
27 March 2013
Reports from the picket lines and rallies
22 March 2013
The attempt to defend their position includes the charge levelled against the Socialist Party that, 'It has to be said that for all of the emphasis on Broad Left work, no real effort has been put into uniting the Broad Lefts in the various unions....
22 March 2013
The other prop of Merseyside's case against the Socialist Party leadership is in relation to the collapse of Stalinism...
22 March 2013
Perspectives for the ex-Stalinist States
This is true not just of the economy but of perspectives for the ex-Stalinist states, the national question, perspectives for Europe, etc...
20 March 2013
Trade unions must lead anti-cuts fightback
As this copy of the Socialist hits the streets, 250,000 PCS members in the civil service will be walking out on their Budget Day strike against job losses, attacks on their terms and conditions and the continuing pay freeze - amounting to an average real pay cut of 16% since 2008...
20 March 2013
Budget continues onslaught on living standards
As expected and feared, chancellor George Osborne's budget has driven on with the austerity that is massively eroding workers' living standards, while utterly failing to improve the economy
15 March 2013
NSSN to lobby TUC General Council on 24 April
The National Shop Stewards Network has called a lobby of the next TUC general council, urging it to name a date for a general strike
The Spirit of '45, directed by Ken Loach, photo Ken Loach
13 March 2013
This film is a documentary, interviewing people who remember the mass movement to create the welfare state following World War Two, writes Katrine Williams, president of Cardiff Trades Council and Wales chair for the PCS civil service union
13 March 2013
Portugal: Revolutionary spirit in fighting austerity
On 2 March, under the slogan "Screw the Troika - the people are the best rulers", over 1.5 million people (out of a population of 10.7 million) reclaimed Portugal's streets, in what even the media has speculated may have been the country's biggest ever demonstrations, write CWI reporters.
7 March 2013
TUC must name the day for 24-hour strike
Over a quarter of a million civil service union PCS members will walk out on 20 March, the day Chancellor George Osborne stands up to deliver yet another cuts budget
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