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Socialist Party news and analysis
Workers’ pay down £2,500… Bosses’ pay up £700,000
Fight for decent pay, jobs and benefits: Feeling the pinch? Cutting back on spending? Wondering how you’ll make it to the end of the month? You’re not alone. Workers everywhere are struggling with stagnating wages and rising prices
Workers’ pay down £2.5k – Bosses’ pay up £700k
How the super-rich get away with it
“Tax avoidance – everyone does it.” That is according to multimillionaire, former hedge fund manager and Tory donor, Lord Fink
Socialist Party congress
Preparing the forces to fight capitalist austerity
On 14-15 February, branch delegates and visitors gathered at 2015 Socialist Party congress to discuss and debate the key political developments internationally and in Britain, and to map out the party’s tasks over the next 12 months
Watford Socialist Party member Sajith Attepuram, photo Senan
International socialist news and analysis
Greece: If the Troika does not back down?
Let the Greek people decide! The stand-off between the Greek Syriza government and the European Union (EU) finance ministers is continuing
“Dogs of war” unleashed against water tax movement
“Call off the dogs of war on people in Jobstown.” These were the words of Socialist Party TD (member of parliament) Ruth Coppinger when she challenged the Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Joan Burton in the Dáil (Irish parliament) on 12 February
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
“Vote for hope and an alternative”
Ex-Labour councillor stands for TUSC in Harrow: Nana Asante, former Labour mayor and Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) prospective parliamentary candidate in Harrow East, spoke to the Socialist, writes Why did the split occur in the Labour Party in Harrow?.
Nana Asante speaking at the 2014 TUSC conference, photo Paul Mattsson
“I want to tell the truth about the crime of austerity”
Nancy Taaffe, TUSC’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Walthamstow, spoke to the Socialist
Socialist Party election appeal
Socialist Party workplace news
Pensions strike and demo, 25 February: Firefighters in the FBU union will be striking for 24 hours from 7am on 25 February in their battle against government changes to pensions
Firefighters protesting in Leicester over pension changes, photo Steve Score
Lewisham: striking against ‘academisation’
NUT union members from Sedgehill and the three Prendergast Federation schools, in Lewisham, south London, came out on strike on 12 February against the threat of forced ‘academisation’
London bus strike suspended – prepare for more action
Protest wins reinstatement of Crossrail worker
Fighting for a £10 minimum wage
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Fighting racism with Solidarity Street
Over the last six months, hundreds of local people have backed our call to boycott “Immigration Street”
Labour council to deal ‘savage blow’ to Coventry
On 24 February, councillors in Coventry will deal a savage blow to our city. They will vote on a budget making £15 million in cuts
May Day greetings with the Socialist
Socialist Party comments and reviews
When I was new to bus driving, it wound me up when bus controllers asked: “Driver, why are you late?” I’m driving a busy bus in lots of traffic and the timetable is almost impossible to keep to
Clapton bus garage, photo Paul Mattsson
Decades of disastrous and bloody interventions
Shallow look at racist far right
TV review – Angry, White and Proud: Jamie Roberts’ Channel 4 documentary claimed to shine a spotlight on Britain’s far-right today