The Socialist 19 August 2020

Students 2 : 0 Tories - Protests work!

Students 2 : 0 Tories - Protests work!

Student protests force government retreat

"As a working-class student, I already faced struggles"

Tory track and trace failure

Tory planning deregulation: a charter for building profitable slums

NHS workers demand improved pay - 15% for all now!

Revolutionary mood in Lebanon following horrific explosion

Mass protests and strikes rock Belarus

80th anniversary of Leon Trotsky's assassination

Yorkshire: Celebrating the life and ideas of Leon Trotsky

September school return must be safe for all workers and students

NHS pay: unions must take fight to U-turn Tories

75 years since the publication of Animal Farm: From 'two legs bad' to 'two legs better'

300 Covid cases at Northampton food plant - management to blame, not the workers!

PCS union: Vote Yes in DWP ballot! Reject longer opening hours

Support the Tower Hamlets council workers, vote for Hugo Pierre!

Black Lives Matter: this generation is willing to stand up and fight

We can't take any more cuts

Nottingham: oppose the far right and attempts to divide us

Your donations help us campaign

Leeds: Little London residents are celebrating

To push change we need to be organised - why we joined the Socialist Party

Sheffield: Support Sue

Brighton: Another luxury development

The Socialist: back to weekly soon

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Support the Tower Hamlets council workers, vote for Hugo Pierre!

Tower Hamlets council workers strike August 2020, photo Isai Priya (Click to enlarge)

Hugo Pierre (pictured second left), a Socialist Party member, candidate for Unison general secretary, and a local resident in Tower Hamlets, supported council workers in the east London borough, on strike against council plans to sack them and re-engage them on worse terms and conditions.

The workers were taking their ninth day of strike action against the right-wing Labour mayor, John Biggs, who is forcing through the changes to long-standing agreements with the council's trade unions.

The workers now have to reballot for further action.

Hugo is currently seeking Unison branch nominations and is standing on this programme:

Local authorities: a national fight for £10 billion funding - fight all cuts and demand Labour councillors don't vote for cuts
For a renationalised NHS and social care sector with full collective bargaining and national terms and conditions
Reverse all education privatisation. Academies back to local authorities. Full funding for further and higher education
For a real fight on public sector pay to reverse the 'austerity years' pay cuts - for a £15-an-hour minimum wage
Fight for jobs and homes, not racism. Black lives matter!
Not a penny of members' money to Labour representatives who back cuts, privatisation or austerity
For genuine members' control of our union, with the election of union officials
For a trade union fight to end environmental catastrophe
A pledge not to take the £138,000-a-year salary. but live on a worker's wage

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Students 2 : 0 Tories - Protests work!