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Fight the bedroom tax
‘How can the person responsible for driving through this evil bedroom tax look at himself in the mirror every day?’, writes Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool Socialist Party.
Leeds anti-bedroom tax demonstration 21 April 2013, photo Mid Shelley
Anti-bedroom tax federation launched in Merseyside
Bedroom tax campaigning in Leytonstone, Birmingham and Newham
Diary of a bedroom tax campaigner: Ian Pattison, Waltham Forest Socialist Party and Waltham Forest Anti-Cuts Union describes a week of campaigning against the bedroom tax
Socialist Party news and analysis
The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe. Over half of Tory backbenchers voted against the Queen’s speech – their own government’s legislative agenda
Big business tax avoidance scandal
Make the corporate fat cats pay! We’ve been robbed! Every day big corporations are stealing millions from us; millions that could be used to employ doctors and nurses, to build desperately needed houses and to reverse the massive cuts
We are the 99% – Take the wealth off the 1% Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson
The NHS is under the cosh, having been instructed by the government to make savings of £20 billion. This has driven a relentless assault upon the terms and conditions of thousands of employees
MPs’ pay rise: £65,738 a year basic salary just isn’t enough for our MPs. Not to mention their infamous expenses.
Socialist Party feature
Wales faces a bleak future on the basis of capitalism unless the working class can defend public services and the welfare state
Caerphilly march to save the A&E, photo Becky Davis
International socialist news and analysis
South African economy: Mass sacking threat demands mass action
The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) has denounced Amplats’ (Anglo American – the world’s largest platinum producer) cold-blooded plans to slash 6,000 jobs
Sri Lanka: Isolate the murderous Rajapaksa regime
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Labour non-answers show why real anti-cuts councillors are needed: ‘Can you guarantee that Sure Start, libraries and Woolston youth centre will still be open’? asked TUSC candidate Sue Atkins
Sue Atkins, Southampton council TUSC candidate, photo Southampton Socialist Party
Anti-blacklisting campaigner run over
George Tapp, who has stood as a TUSC candidate in council elections in Salford, has been hospitalised after being hit by a car while taking part in a protest against blacklisting
University backs down: students and workers win!
Support for Mid Yorkshire Health struggle in the Mirror
On 17 May, the Daily Mirror carried an excellent column by Paul Routledge about the important struggle taking place in Mid Yorkshire Health Trust.
Unison staff at Pinderfields hospital strike, photo Iain Dalton
A demonstration outside parliament is being held on 22 May against the Con-Dems’ proposals to further cut legal aid
At this year’s G8 summit in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on 17-18 June, heads of the largest capitalist economies will discuss how they can further the interests of the super-rich, big business and the bankers.
London Socialist Party regional conference
Socialist Party workplace news
Fighting back pays off: Thera East Midlands forced to make concessions
After very successful strike action, support workers employed by Thera East Midlands have won some important concessions
POA conference – Prisons should not be run for profit
In May the prison officers’ union POA met for their national conference in Southport. POA is increasingly at the centre of the battle against austerity
Support Carling brewery workers at Burton-on-Trent
Sacked Tesco drivers on the march again
PCS members fight Land Registry privatisation
Firefighters prepare for pensions battle
London firefighters rally against service cuts, photo by Ben Robinson
Readers’ comments
Cuts kill: Con-Dem benefit ‘reforms’, mental health and suicide
Steven Bottrill, whose disabled mum Stephanie killed herself because of the bedroom tax, said: “Hopefully now someone will listen. Someone will realise what has gone on and change things”
Hardest Hit Protest: Disabled people and their families protest in central London against government spending cuts, photo Paul Mattsson