Socialist Party NHS campaigning
The NHS is being broken apart by the hammer blows raining down on it from the Con-Dem government. Huge job cuts and closures of hospital wards and departments, including A&E, are wreaking havoc.
NHS protest against Lansley’s bill in London May 2011, photo by Paul Mattsson
Prince Philip Hospital Llanelli: We can defeat cuts plans
The proposals for Prince Philip Hospital are scandalous. The closure of the A&E unit in Llanelli, south west Wales, will mean patients having to travel to Carmarthen, Swansea or even Haverfordwest
Kingston Hospital: Save all NHS jobs
Kingston Hospital in south west London has announced the closure of Derwent Ward, part of the Esher wing, which deals with rheumatology and haematology
Socialist Party news and analysis
Jarrow March 2011: Jarrow March for Jobs arrives in London, photo Paul Mattsson
Exploiting the unemployed to line the pockets of big business
Safe railways, not shopping malls
Clever clogs: How many of you have had ‘the look’? ‘The look’ from Tories who pity socialists for ‘not understanding’ how the world ‘really’ works. A trait no doubt picked up from the Eton-Oxbridge clique
Socialist Party youth and students
Students drop out of college without EMA
November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan
Leeds Trinity students fight canteen cuts
Leeds City College Socialist Students (LCCSS) recently held its first meeting, writes Molly Allen
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Like many disabled people, I have followed the course of the Con-Dems’ Welfare Reform Bill (WRB) with dread, writes Mark Wright, Harlow Socialist Party.
Anti-cuts and disabled activists protesting against Welfare Reform Bill, London 28.1.12 , pic Ben Robinson
All 39 Sure Start centres in Manchester have been saved following a mammoth year-long battle by parents and staff against the council
Tower Hamlets: Save Rushmead one stop shop – fight all cuts
Salford campaign saves day care centres
After several weeks of protest, two adult day care centres in Salford have been reprieved from closure by the council for 12 months
Defend care services in Medway
Up to 100 disabled service users, staff, carers and anti-cuts campaigners marched through Chatham on Saturday 4 February
International socialist news and analysis
Mubarak’s state machine blamed for football massacre
Seventy-four football fans were killed and hundreds injured after the final whistle blew at the al-Masry versus al-Ahly match in Port Said on 1 February, writes David Johnson
Socialist Party workplace news
Waltham Forest teachers and lecturers on the 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions, photo Senan
Reinstate sacked PCS steward, John Brookes!
The scandalous role of London Unison – Demand that it defends Len Hockey!
Striking oil tanker drivers demand meaningful talks
The Socialist – reviews & readers’ comments
Tory policies hit women hardest
Review: Borgen – politics and crime in Denmark
The Killing, a Danish TV series interweaving crime drama with political drama was a great success on BBC 4, writes Derek McMillan.
