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Socialist Party news and analysis
Bob Crow – A great fighter for the working class
The Socialist Party is shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the death of Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport union – an uncompromising fighter for the working class and a champion of many important causes
Bob Crow speaking at the NSSN’s lobby of the TUC, 24.4.13 , photo N Cafferky
Stop the destruction of care in Britain
The underfunding of social care and the cuts in pay and conditions of care workers as a consequence of the government’s austerity measures is a national scandal
NHS – under attack from private vultures
The government has launched its biggest single privatisation of NHS services so far by inviting private companies to bid for £1.2 billion worth of contracts to provide frontline cancer treatment in district hospitals and care for the terminally ill across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Police spy inquiry must not be another whitewash
Stop cuts and police repression in Tottenham!
Poverty safari: The idle rich used to go on big game safaris. Now it seems that ‘poverty safaris’ are all the rage
Socialist Party congress
Preparing for a mighty upsurge in class struggle
On 8-10 March the Socialist Party held its annual national congress in Clacton. Around 300 delegates and visitors attended the very successful event
Delegates at the Socialist Party 2014 national congress, photo Senan
Socialist Party workplace news
Solidarity with Doncaster care strikers
“Historic is an over-used word” said Unison officer Jim Bell, “but it really is historic that Care UK workers are striking 30 years on from the miners’ strike”
Doncaster Care UK workers striking in March 2014, photo A Tice
PCS: Building a fighting union leadership
Lawyers walk out to defend legal aid
It is rare, if it happens at all, that those of us on the left attend protests and demonstrations with Tory party grandees among the speakers…
Probation workers to strike again
Around 400 members of the probation workers’ union Napo met in Birmingham last week where a second national strike in our campaign to defeat privatisation was announced
Labour council removes trade union facilities
On 1 April Carmarthenshire Labour-led council will be removing the trade union secondments for Unison, GMB and Unite
Unison higher education – fighting leadership needed
Unison’s Higher Education (HE) conference has, over recent years, been a small but significant opportunity to observe the growth of the mood to fight back against austerity attacks in the HE sector
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Campaigning on International Women’s Day
Campaigning in Leicester on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2014, photo Hannah
Second Maltby councillor for TUSC
Labour can’t even offer a candidate: Almost a year to the day after the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate Joe Robinson won a town council seat in the ex-mining town of Maltby, in South Yorkshire, TUSC has won a second seat, this time in Maltby East
Anti-fracking campaign steps up in Lancashire
On 9 March hundreds of people marched through Manchester to protest against the plans for thousands of oil and gas wells throughout Lancashire
Readers’ comments
The horror that was World War One
House clearing recently, I found a will written by hand by my grandfather dated 28 June 1916, three days before the Battle of the Somme, writes Pete Watson.