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What we think
Corbyn must expose the Independent Group and the neoliberal nature of the EU – while fighting for what’s needed to save jobs
From anger to action to save Honda plant
Unite the Union needs to put its national resources behind this fight, linking with the local shop stewards and mobilising the entire community and labour movement
Socialist Party feature
Defending the city that dared to fight
Peter Taaffe responds to the Guardian’s Hannah Jane Parkinson on the record of Liverpool City Council and the Militant Tendency in the 1980s.
Council cuts
Kirklees: Labour and Green councillors refuse to fight the cuts
At the time of its last accounts in April, Kirklees had useable reserves of £185 million
Leicester: cuts passed in record time – use the £100m reserves!
Leicester Socialist Party is contesting May’s elections on a platform of using the reserves to set a legal no-cuts budget
Worcestershire: save the nine libraries
The local library in St Johns, Worcester, is under threat of job losses, shorter hours and possible closure, along with another eight across Worcestershire
Socialist Party news and analysis
Kick out austerity politicians
Tories, Blairites, Independents: The MPs who resigned from Labour aren’t the only politicians who have, in Corbyn’s words, “no problem with austerity”
Socialist change, not climate change!
Young people realise that this capitalist hoarding and reckless disregard for the planet cannot last
The recent indicative strike ballot by the National Education Union should prepare the ground for a serious confrontation with the government
Blairite traitor Ian Austin – byelection now!
Austin should never have been allowed to leave Labour’s ranks at a time of his choosing – he should have faced having the whip withdrawn
Cuts councils massage homelessness figures
How should councils deal with the deepening housing crisis and the homelessness and desperation it creates?
US: “Launch a mass, working-class fightback”
Seattle Socialist councillor Kshama Sawant: Working-class people need our own party, independent of corporate money and power, that fights alongside us rather than against us
Workplace news and analysis
Supermarket giants merger: protect jobs and fight price hikes
For democratic public ownership: There should be joint meetings between Usdaw, Unite and GMB shop stewards for a joint campaign to improve wages and conditions
Birmingham Bin workers and home carers strike on same day
The workers’ mood is high and determined for victory
University and College Union: anti-union laws frustrate strike ballot again
We cannot be discouraged, but should continue to put forward local demands
Manchester posties strike against bullying
The company “needs to realise that it will be easier to replace the small management ‘regime’ than it will be to replace the entire workforce”
Outsourced workers at Liverpool Women’s Hospital were on strike on 25 February because they’re paid less by their private company OCS than staff working directly for the NHS
PCS union: help us win the elections and pay campaign
We must unite to maximise the vote for the whole Left Unity slate in the elections which start on 16 April, and secure a threshold-busting vote in the pay ballot
South East Unison annual general meeting votes for no-cuts budgets
A motion calling on all councils to pass no-cuts budgets should be on the agenda at the conference of public service union Unison
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
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The Socialist Party is launching an e-reader version of the Socialist newspaper
Tommy Robinson BBC demo: socialist fightback needed to undermine far right
In the vacuum left by Corbyn and the union leaders failing to lead a fight to end Tory and Blairite austerity, the far right is trying to regroup
Nottingham Labour Corbyn rally
This is no time for timidity – but there was no call from the platform for mandatory reselection to boot out the rest of the Blairites
PCS union branch opposes cuts to women’s services
These union members work with people escaping domestic violence – they can see austerity and government policy have put women in a worse position
International Women’s Day meetings and other events
Five years on – and still no justice for Zane
Like Hillsborough, the campaign for truth and justice for Zane Gbangbola is proving to be a long haul
Opinion
Non-fiction: ‘Unhealthy Profits: PFI in the NHS’
This is a useful book for any trade unionist fighting the consequences of their own local PFI scheme
Art exhibition: ‘Unobtania’ by Peter Robson
“Imaginative and powerful”
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. Climate strikes; Independent Group