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Socialist Party news and analysis
Unemployment is rising. Benefits are being slashed. Among the latest to face the Con-Dems’ axe are 1,700 disabled workers in skilled, productive jobs as 36 Remploy factories face closure.
Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Bob Severn
Fight the cuts – for a workers’ alternative
Interview with RMT candidate: London regional organiser for the RMT transport union, Steve Hedley, spoke to the Socialist about present issues facing London Underground workers, and why he is standing for TUSC in the May elections
Steve Hedley, London Regional Organiser, RMT , photo Socialist Party
Fight back against attacks on pensions
N30 – Millions strike back at Con-Dem government on 30 November 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
There have been protest meetings across West Sussex against the danger of Hydraulic Fracturing (“Fracking”). The practice has been banned in France and Bulgaria after mass protests
A4e’s champagne lifestyle: Conferences in Monaco, £200-a-head nights out, £800 meals – that’s the lifestyle afforded by top executives at disgraced workfare company A4e…
Socialist Party workplace news
National Shop Stewards Network: Over 40 construction workers protested on 14 March outside the Shard site at London Bridge. These workers were fresh from the victory over the ‘Dirty Seven’ construction companies
‘All power to the Sparks’ – Electrician construction workers: protest at Cannon Street, London , photo Paul Mattsson
International socialist news and analysis
Widespread fraud alleged as Putin wins presidential poll
‘Communist’ Party and neoliberal opposition fail to win mass appeal: The election of Vladimir Putin to the office of president of Russia, is surrounded by allegations of widespread voter fraud, writes Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow.
Kazakhstan: Oilworkers’ lawyer freed from prison
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
National demo needed to save our NHS
The coalition government with little opposition from Labour are closer than ever to transferring our National Health Service to the money grabbing private sector who will enrich themselves still further
Con-Demolition of the NHS, photo by Socialist Party
Liberals’ ‘democratic’ conference
While the Socialist Party held its national congress in Clacton-on-Sea and committed itself to the fight to save the NHS, the Lib Dems had their conference in Gateshead
Fighting Con-Dem attacks on education
14 March – Socialist Students get a response
Student walk-out and demonstration 14 March 2012, photo by Paul Mattsson
Library cash goes to supermarket bosses
Following an extensive campaign and judicial review that was unfavourable to them, Gloucestershire county council (GCC) has been forced to redress its cuts programme through public consultations
Coventry: Fight for a socialist alternative
The Coventry Observer reports that: “Coventry City Council is in line to win an award for the way it has delivered budget cuts”
Socialist Party congress
Socialist Party Congress 10-12 March 2012
In Clacton-on-Sea at the weekend, 295 delegates and visitors took part in a very successful Socialist Party annual congress
Socialist Party congress 2012, photo Senan
World developments show – capitalism is crisis
“When the present devastating world crisis of capitalism broke, the Socialist Party and the CWI drew bold far-reaching conclusions: that this time there would be no quick or easy way out for capitalism and that arising from this we would see a period of revolution and counter-revolution”
Britain: working class begins to ‘rise like lions’
Building the Socialist Party: ‘year of the branch’
Young, socialist and proud to be!
Reviews & readers’ comments
‘Westenders’ – omnibus edition
We are being badgered to celebrate 60 years of Queen Elizabeth on the throne by a never-ending propaganda offensive, writes Rob Bishop, Gloucestershire Socialist Party and Cheltenham Against the Cuts.
