Archive for December 2017
5 December 2017
Glenfield victory shows people power can save our NHS
Celebrations were taking place in Leicester city centre following an outstanding victory for the campaign to save congenital heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital
5 December 2017
Labour council Blairites deselected
Representatives of Labour's right wing have been fulminating about Haringey deselections
6 December 2017
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) went on strike today (6.12.17) at Westways primary school in Sheffield
6 December 2017
East Coast line rescued from private failure AGAIN - biggest hike in fares for five years- transport workers under attack
6 December 2017
14 million people in the UK - over 20% of the population - are living below the poverty line
6 December 2017
Tyneside walk-in closures postponed after rally
Following the protest a clinical commissioning group meeting postponed the closure of the walk-in centres
6 December 2017
Rough sleeping crisis: make homes, not arrests
The shocking death of a 32-year-old rough sleeper in Cardiff should have spurred emergency housing action - instead authorities are cracking down on homeless people themselves
6 December 2017
RBS to sack 1,000: nationalise the banks
The Royal Bank of Scotland wants to cut 259 branches and 1,000 jobs - while the Tories plan to sell it at a £26 billion loss
6 December 2017
Royal wedding exposes them-and-us visa system
If you're very wealthy you can buy your way in - but for ordinary people, visa applications don't have many fairy-tale endings
6 December 2017
Branson sues NHS: kick out the profiteers
The NHS has paid an unknown amount to Virgin after Richard Branson lost a bid to outsource Surrey health services
6 December 2017
Fighting sexism, violence and capitalism - an international struggle
Interviews with socialist women from Mexico, Belgium, Ireland and Brazil
6 December 2017
Demonstrations by uni students and staff greet Bath vice-chancellor resignation
Glynis Breakwell had also claimed £20,000 in expenses, including £2 for a packet of biscuits, leading to chants of "books not biscuits"
6 December 2017
Workers on strike in three separate disputes held a joint rally in Liverpool city centre on Monday
6 December 2017
Plans to launch no-cuts campaign at Kirklees College
A 'financial notice to improve' was issued to the college for "inadequate financial health"
6 December 2017
Liverpool John Moores Uni landslide for Socialist Students
Liverpool John Moores University Socialist Students member David Hitchmough topped the poll for National Union of Students conference delegates
6 December 2017
TUSC conference to debate 2018 elections
TUSC has been prepared to contest local elections against right-wing Labour councillors carrying out Tory cuts - but should that be reviewed for next year's poll?
6 December 2017
Coventry Socialist sales hit 1,000
On 1 December our weekly Socialist paper sale in Coventry managed to pass 1,000 sales since we started in May 2016
6 December 2017
Waltham Forest Universal Credit protest
Local MP Iain Duncan Smith devised the spiteful system, which has already left families in rent arrears and without benefits at Christmas time
6 December 2017
Court maintains injunction against fracking protesters
Anti-fracking protesters received a blow recently when Mr Justice Morgan ruled that an injunction obtained against protesters by Ineos Shale should continue
6 December 2017
Blairite horror and Labour's divisions graphically exposed
Documentary: Labour - the Summer that Changed Everything: Blairite Stephen Kinnock's eyes are frozen in horror and amazement as the implications of the huge moral victory for Corbyn sink in
6 December 2017
Comment: Socialism and truth about Zane
"We have endured the most astounding catalogue of abuse from authorities, but still we fight for justice"
6 December 2017
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist editors - tower fire shows need for sprinklers; GPs devastated by cuts; tax dodgers
6 December 2017
PCS Left Unity celebrates 40th anniversary at annual conference
Socialist Party members continue to play a key role: The conference agreed the need to apply pressure on other unions to meet with each other to coordinate campaigns and action
6 December 2017
Brutal rail privateer Abellio takes over Midlands rail services
Abellio has gained a brutal reputation from its stewardship of Scotrail, Merseyrail and Greater Anglia
6 December 2017
School staff strike against privatisation
Outside Avenue Primary School parents and the community stood with school staff striking against becoming an academy on 29 November
6 December 2017
Driving examiners walkout hits first day of new test
PCS members at Wakefield Driving Test Centre began two days of strike action on 4 December against attacks on their terms and conditions of work as part of a national dispute
6 December 2017
BT pensions review - oppose the attacks on the pension schemes
A 60-day consultation is taking place to make changes to several BT pension schemes
6 December 2017
Arriva bus strikers stand firm
Drivers and engineers in Rucorn continue to stand firmly together in support of their claim for a fair pay deal from employer Arriva
6 December 2017
Irish capitalist state: rotten to the core
Build a powerful socialist challenge: Irish deputy prime minister Frances Fitzgerald has resigned over her role in the police whistleblower scandal, thereby preventing the collapse of the Fine Gael minority government
6 December 2017
Mobilise to stop bigoted billionaire Donald Trump's state visit to Britain
US president Donald Trump shared three tweets posted by far-right racist group Britain First
6 December 2017
Trump's tax plan: Robin Hood in reverse
Donald Trump's tax plans mean he's doing what he does best - making a stack of cash for himself
6 December 2017
Corbyn's Labour can defeat Tories with socialist programme
Editorial of the Socialist: Labour's poll lead is narrow as Corbyn attacks the banks and a national demo is called for May - what now?
7 December 2017
Anti-DOO lobby of Liverpool's transport committee
A lobby gathered at the Cunard Buildings, Mann Island, ahead of a meeting of Liverpool's Transport Committee
7 December 2017
Unite protest against blacklisting
Unite the Union held protests across the country on Wednesday against the "sinister practice" of blacklisting workers
8 December 2017
Local government pay: fight for the 5% claim, fully funded
Over a million council and school workers have been waiting to see if there would be any relief from their constant falling living standards as they have watched their pay fall by 21% in real terms since 2010.
12 December 2017
Support the Crossrail Woolwich walkout
54 electricians were locked out by Balfour Beatty
13 December 2017
Academic staff at the University of Brighton who walked out to defend two members of staff threatened with redundancy on 23 and 24 November have won
13 December 2017
Strike action at Outside Avenue primary school in Newham, east London, against turning the school into an academy continues on 14 December following a mass picket of 80 teachers, parents and children during the previous strike on 29 November
13 December 2017
Tamil Solidarity and Refugee Rights activists meeting
Tamil Solidarity's annual general meeting took place in London on 9 December followed by a public meeting titled 'South Asia and Britain - lessons to learn from struggles'
13 December 2017
Retail sector crunch: nationalise to save jobs
Toys R Us plans to close a third of its stores. Asda wants to downgrade hundreds of shopfloor supervisors. Britain's largest tobacco distributor Palmer & Harvey has gone into administration.
13 December 2017
Uni market 'failure', two-year degrees - end cuts, scrap fees!
Less than a third of higher education students think their course offers value for money according to the National Audit Office. Its chief says universities would be accused of "mis-selling" if they were banks. This comes as no surprise!
13 December 2017
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including live reindeer and lumps of coal.
13 December 2017
110 years ago: massacre at Santa Maria school in Chile - commemorate 21 December 1907
This year marks the centenary of the Russian revolution when the working class took power in October. It is also the 110-year anniversary of a historical and bloody struggle of workers that is less well-known.
13 December 2017
Unite day of action against blacklisting
Hundreds of construction workers took part in the national day of action against blacklisting on 6 December called by Unite the Union
13 December 2017
South London health bosses' cover-up
The six south west London CCGs - statutory NHS bodies responsible for the planning and paying for healthcare services for their local area - recently held a joint meeting.
13 December 2017
Bradford campaign to save children's services launched
A good start was made to the campaign to save council-run children's services in Bradford at a public meeting on 5 December, with representation from service users, trade unionists and community campaigners
13 December 2017
Two in five 'right to buy' homes now for let
Scrap Thatcher's right to buy: Over 40% of ex-council houses sold under Thatcher's 'right to buy' scheme are now part of the private rental sector, according to Inside Housing.
13 December 2017
A world in crisis, ripe for revolution
Committee for a Workers' International document: The world crisis of capitalism - despite the surface impression of 'recovery' - has only got worse since the meeting of last year's IEC.
13 December 2017
Tory plan to hold dinner at coal mining museum defeated
Local residents and ex-mining families were outraged when news came through that Dewsbury Conservative Association was intending to have their annual dinner at the National Coal Mining Museum at the former Caphouse colliery in Overton near Wakefield.
13 December 2017
How attentive to the news have readers of the Socialist been in 2017? Here's the test as drawn up by the paper's editors in this year's quiz
13 December 2017
Brexit deal no solution to Tory rifts
For a while Theresa May's divided government seemed unable even to obtain a deal on the 'first stage' of Brexit negotiations
13 December 2017
Labour 'purge' furore really just democracy
Labour's "moderates" are being forced out. "An atmosphere of intimidation" has been created. "Bullying campaigns" are being organised. These are just a few examples of the capitalist media's recent 'reporting'
13 December 2017
Trump's incendiary Jerusalem statement reignites Israeli-Palestinian conflict
There was a wave of protest around the world following Trump's declaration of recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital
13 December 2017
Totnes MP uses coffin controversy to distract from brutal NHS cuts
A march took place against cuts and privatisation
13 December 2017
Movement growing against fracking giant Ineos
Ineos has been allowed to bypass planning procedures with elected councillors
13 December 2017
Six months on - still no justice for Grenfell
Dozens of families that survived the fire at Grenfell Tower face Christmas in hotels
13 December 2017
Underfunded, understaffed, under attack:
It's the NHS workers and patients who bear the brunt of the inevitable winter pressures - combined with underfunding, understaffing, low pay and low morale.
14 December 2017
Stop the rotten redevelopment plan, demand residents
What was the point? That's what the hundreds who attended the council's planning committee will have been thinking
16 December 2017
Blairite council 'all ears' to rich property developers
Haringey council wants to turn a historic town hall into mainly 'luxury' flats.
16 December 2017
Arriva bus drivers' action wins pay rise
Arriva backed down and offered a two-year deal, accepted by Unite members this week
21 December 2017
Newham: school strike solid against academy
Avenue School was in near-total shutdown on 14 December, its second strike day in opposition to becoming a quasi-privatised 'academy'
21 December 2017
Housing victory for Sussex students
Success has been achieved with regard to the Sussex university student accommodation dispute at high rent Kings Road Hall near Brighton seafront
21 December 2017
Leeds: temporary reprieve for playing fields
Community opposition, mobilised through the Save Fearnville Fields campaign, has forced a reprieve. The council has suspended until the New Year the seeking of permission to build a new 'free school' academy on the King George V playing fields.
17 Jan Socialist Party national women's meeting: Perspectives for women and class struggle in Britain
20 Jan All-London TUSC meeting
20 Jan Socialist Students national meeting: Refund the rent, cancel the fees and fight for free education
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