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From The Socialist newspaper, 13 January 2016
What We Saw
New wave quintet Squeeze put the - er - squeeze on David Cameron on the Andrew Marr show on 10 January.
The band changed the lyrics of its November 2015 single 'Cradle to the Grave' to protest against Tory housing policy. With true-blue Cameron turning red just feet away, frontman Glenn Tilbrook sang:
"I grew up in council houses
Part of what made Britain great
There are some here who are hell-bent
On the destruction of the welfare state"
Top tweets
The right-wing media is trying to smear striking medics as super-rich layabouts. The truth is that, while better paid than many, their strike is about defending the NHS as much as rightly protecting their working conditions. Doctors respond.
Deepan Sivakumar @d33pan
Working 12 days straight - no time for food shopping so treated myself to a meal deal, so decadent #SmearTheDocs
Jacquina @jacquina
Junior Doctor, 28, uses THREE bags for life for one week of shopping. Excessive.
Daniel Leopard @DanielLeopard
GP reg splashes out on luxury £1,600 exam and spends Sunday revising next to my pants #MoetMedics #SmearTheDocs
Dr Ben White @ProtocoIDriven
Tea-swilling Shock Doc Wears Live Cat Fur for Breakfast #SmearTheDocs
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The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.
The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.
The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.
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In The Socialist 13 January 2016:
What we think
Corbyn must lead a fight against the right and for an anti-austerity programme
NHS
Junior doctors' strike: picket photos and reports
Doctors battle burnout as 100 full-up GP surgeries apply to shut their doors
"Shattered but proud", a day in the life of a student nurse
Student nurses march to oppose bursary cut
Socialist Party news and analysis
Bosses 'earn' year's pay in under a week
BBC planned live Labour resignation to damage Corbyn
EU probes power plant for wrongdoing over switch from coal to biomass
Housing crisis
Slums, speculation, sell-offs and sardines
Housing staff strike against cuts
Cameron's 10,000 new homes won't hide the problem
476,000 homes in England go unbuilt by speculators
Council cuts
A clear strategy to defeat the Tory cuts
Council uses reserves to stop cuts
Southampton people's budget meeting
Readers' comments and reviews
Victor Jara's revolutionary life, poetry and politics
International socialist news and analysis
Sexual assaults in Cologne exploited by racist establishment and far right
Honduras: Day of the endangered lawyer
Workplace news and analysis
West Dunbartonshire teachers strike
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
"We hope to inspire people to go out and spread their passion for the Socialist"
Report: Socialist Party national women's meeting
Eleanor Marx: a life of struggle, solidarity and socialism
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