Join us today!
Printable version
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/884/22004
From The Socialist newspaper, 13 January 2016
A clear strategy to defeat the Tory cuts
Since 2010 local government spending has been slashed by 40%. Countless essential services have been cut to the bone.
Tory chancellor George Osborne, in his Autumn Statement, announced a new round of savagery in 2016 with a massive 8.8% (£2.6 billion) cut in the government grant to local councils.
Osborne can rely upon local councils, including those run by Labour, to implement these cuts. But as the following articles explain there is a clear and practical socialist alternative.
Donate to the Socialist Party
Finance appeal
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.
- The Socialist Party's material is more vital than ever, so we can continue to report from workers who are fighting for better health and safety measures, against layoffs, for adequate staffing levels, etc.
- When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.
Inevitably, during the crisis we have not been able to sell the Socialist and raise funds in the ways we normally would.
We therefore urgently appeal to all our viewers to donate to our Fighting Fund.
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
Home | The Socialist 13 January 2016 | Join the Socialist Party
Subscribe | Donate | Audio | PDF | ebook
2020