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Fighting workfare
Workfare? Fair it’s certainly not! The bankers help cause the biggest economic crisis in generations and get rewarded with billions. Yet ordinary people are now being told to work for free.
Youth Fight for Jobs protest against Workfare in Stratford’s Westfield shopping centre in London 25 February 2012, photo Senan
Working class needs real political opposition to Con-Dem millionaires
A4e: workfare vultures in crisis
‘We want jobs – not slave labour!’
Paul Callanan, YFJ national organiser, explains YFJ’s campaign for investment in real jobs and its opposition to the government’s slave labour schemes
Interview with a jobcentre worker
What workfare really means: Workfare is a catch-all term used to describe the various unpaid work schemes the government operates through the Department for Work and Pensions
Socialist Party news and analysis
We can save our public services!: Tory Andrew Lansley’s infamous Health and Social Care bill has been described as a “great mistake”, “a mess”, “unnecessary in many ways” and “setting the NHS back”
Public Health not private wealth – protest against privatisation in the NHS 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
Solidarity with Occupy London protesters
Last stand of the Occupy London protesters , photo Paul Mattsson
Unison leadership found guilty of “unjustifiable discipline” against four Socialist Party activists
Sun launch can’t hide corrupt practices
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Why I’m standing for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition in the London Assembly election
Alex Gordon, President, RMT and TUSC candidate, GLA elections, photo by Paul Mattsson
Student walkout – build mass action
Kirklees Sure Start children centres
Voluntary sector cuts expose Big Society lies
Stop North East NHS childcare cuts
Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland’s primary care trusts are now working under a single management team, which is threatening to end all children’s in-patient services in Gateshead and South Tyneside for cases where over 23 hours of care is needed
Sheffield housing – failed by privatisation
The battle against internet censorship
US copyright law threatens UK student: On 21 January I organised a ‘Rally of the 99%: Voice of the Voiceless’. The rally was part of the third national Occupy conference, held in Sheffield
May Day Greetings in the Socialist
International socialist news and analysis
Iran: Tensions with the US and its allies are ratcheted-up
Workers and poor must rely on their own strength to resist: War clouds are gathering, once again, over the Middle East. Heightening tensions over the last months between the US and its allies and Iran have seen covert assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists,…
Europe – Young people fight ACTA
Socialist Party workplace news
‘Priceless victory’ of sparks against the Dirty Seven
The tremendous victory of construction electricians against the multinational Balfour Beatty and six other building contractors, confirmed yesterday, is a hugely significant moment for these workers and the rest of the union movement
Construction electricians gained a tremendous victory against the multinational Balfour Beatty and six other building contractors, photo by SP Wales
Continuing the pensions battle: PCS consultative ballot
Continuing the pensions battle – Universities