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Socialist Party news and analysis
Around Britain, there have already been many protests against the so-called ‘Bedroom Tax’. This is one of the coalition’s most blatantly anti-poor policies and it will certainly be even more hated when it comes in on 1 April.
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…
PCS preparing for 20 March strike, and more action after
Another Dooh Nibor budget – stealing from the poor to give to the rich
‘All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!’ It’s not Pulp Fiction – its Tory Chancellor George Osborne at the dispatch box and this will be the essence of his budget speech, at least for the vast majority of us
Socialist Party NHS campaigning
Prescription: Fight profiteering from health
In April the NHS will be moved another step closer to being fully privatised. 211 GP-led clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will take over responsibility for the majority of the England NHS budget
March to save Whittington hospital, London, 16.3.13, photo Paul Mattsson
New faces – same Welsh Labour NHS cuts!
Mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust is looking to cut back Dewsbury Hospital services. Little notice or information has been given for the consultation meetings, which have already started and will be over by 20 March
International socialist news and analysis
Iraq: Ten years after ‘shock and awe’
Imperialism’s bloody legacy: Ten years ago, under the banner, ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’, the US-led ‘coalition of the willing’ attacked Iraq, writes Niall Mulholland.
Cypriot workers resist bank-robbing Troika
After months of ‘calm’ the capitalist debt crisis has resurfaced over the banking meltdown in Cyprus, sending financial markets into a spin
What way forward for Greece and the working class in Europe?: On Friday 15 March 500 people attended a public meeting organised by the London branch of Syriza, the left party in Greece. Alexis Tsipras, Syriza’s leader, spoke at the meeting
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Are you sick of your boss? Enough is enough
The government is on the side of the hard-working ‘strivers’, Tory chancellor Osborne assures us. ‘Alarm clock Britain’, can rest comfortably in bed
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Fight grows against privatisation at Sussex Uni
TUSC election campaign has an impact in Gospel Oak
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition is hosting a forum of leading trade unionists on 6 April. This initiative has come from the RMT transport workers’ union with the aim of broadening trade union support for TUSC.
Socialist Students win debate with Labour
North West TUC fails to debate councillors and cuts
The North West TUC met on 9 March at a crucial time for the trade union movement. Motion after motion spelt out the miseries of poverty, austerity, cuts and privatisation.
Help build an alternative to the pro-cuts press with a May Day greeting
Socialist Party workplace news
Another victory in the battle against Unison witch-hunt
Socialist Party member Glenn Kelly has been re-elected as branch secretary of Unison’s Bromley local government branch
Glenn Kelly at Socialist Party congress 2013, photo Senan
Blacklisted electrician wins his case
Revenue and Customs wants to end face-to-face contact
Clapham march to save fire station
HCA strike: Unite Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) members (Housing Workers Branch) will be on strike on 20 March against a pay offer that has resulted in unprecedented anger and disgust among members
Socialist Party reviews
In the first of an occasional series on books that inspired socialists, Tracy Edwards looks at Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.