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Socialist Party news and analysis
Organise coordinated strike action: Dave Nellist, national chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and previously a socialist councillor in Coventry, shows that these cuts are far from necessary and can be stopped
End housing crisis: Rich landlords are real scroungers
Britain’s richest MP, Tory Richard Benyon – ‘worth’ £110 million – has slammed benefits as “something for nothing”. Yet who is living a life of luxury thanks to benefits? He is!
Floods show planning and investment needed
Britain has just had its wettest winter ever recorded. A couple of years ago it had one of its coldest
Tony Blair: The not-so-secret adviser to the rich
Some establishment politicians become so adept at defending the indefensible during their time in office that they can amass a fortune from the skill after leaving
Socialist Party feature
Great 1984-85 miners’ strike remembered
Thirty years ago, on 1 March 1984 the closure of Cortonwood pit was announced, with five years’ production still to go
International socialist news and analysis
President ousted: what next for Ukraine?
The latest developments in the Ukraine saw the dramatic overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovich and his flight from Kiev, writes Niall Mulholland.
Venezuela: Chavism and the Right call for ‘peace’
On 12 February, three people (two right-wing supporters and one government supporter) were killed in Caracas and dozens injured and arrested in the protests and demonstrations that took place around Venezuela to commemorate the annual ‘Youth Day’
Socialist Party workplace news
PCS enters Scotland independence debate
Opposition to all cuts vital: The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has voted overwhelmingly to put opposition to all cuts at the centre of the debate on the referendum on Scottish independence, writes Philip Stott.
Hospital workers fight for fair pay
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
‘Welfare reform’ – an avalanche of misery
“We must, as a society, face up to the fact that over half of people using foodbanks have been put in that situation by cutbacks to and failures in the benefit system, whether it be payment delays or punitive sanctions.” These aren’t the words of an opposition politician or an angry protester
Atos – not capable of assessing work capability
Budget bloodbaths show TUSC needed
Nuneaton students demand proper wages and hours
Appeal: Help Socialist Party offer real alternative
We are appealing to all our members and supporters to donate to the Socialist Party’s Congress 2014 fighting fund appeal
Readers’ comments and reviews
Genetic modification: A means of making profit
The Environment Minister Owen Paterson, in his speech at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference, said that Europe is risking becoming a ‘museum of world farming’ if it doesn’t open the door to genetically modified crops
Wales: A Land of Whose Fathers?
Geoff Jones provides a bite-sized Marxist analysis to answer his question, “Wales: A Land of Whose Fathers
This Christmas, one of my presents was the book Marxism in Today’s World by Peter Taaffe. This is an extended interview originally given in 2003 to an Italian Marxist, on the politics of the Socialist Party
When anti-capitalism sells: A movie about Lego, the interlocking brick building toy? Is it some kind of joke? But the right-wing, Rupert Murdoch-owned, Fox News said the movie’s ‘anti-capitalist’ message is ‘pushing an anti-business message to our kids’