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Socialist Party news and analysis
Tories stand for the 1%… We need a voice for the 99%!
We need a voice for the 99%
Budget for the 1% must be fought
The blatantly pro-rich budget of Chancellor George Osborne was met by a wave of outrage. There was incredulity that the top 1% had been made significantly better off, while pushing on with austerity for everyone else
Toasting the cuts – councils show no remorse
While public sector employment is down by 350,000, writes Linda Taaffe, 1,200 senior council officials “celebrated” their achievements in the Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.
Kirklees Sure Start children centres lobby Kirklees council’s budget meeting, photo Huddersfield Socialist Party
Wales: Does Plaid Cymru leadership vote show left turn?
Budget 2012: reject regional pay
World warming even faster than thought
As it stands, the NHS – supposedly ‘ringfenced’ from austerity – has to find £50 billion of so-called efficiency savings by the end of the decade…
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Abortion – defend and extend the right to choose
Shona McCulloch looks at the tactics of right-wing opponents of abortion rights and of choice, and how best to safeguard women’s hard-won gains…
1,000 people joined a lively Abortion Rights Campaign protest opposite Parliament , photo Leah Jones and Anna Engelhardt
Rare sighting of Tories in Scotland
Brighton Uni: Socialist Students five votes from victory
Socialist election campaigning
Programme for the May elections – For the millions, not the millionaires
The latest fashion among all the parties in Westminster is to steal the Socialist Party’s slogan and claim they are introducing policies that help ‘the millions not the millionaires’…
N30: millions of public sector workers went on strike on 30 November 2011, photo Senan
London TUSC: Standing to say “there is an alternative”
Former Liverpool 47 councillor to give socialist challenge for mayor
Socialist Party workplace news
National action needed to stop the pensions robbery
Last week’s issue of the Socialist carried an explanation of why the PCS civil service union had decided not to call action on 28 March…
NUT london strike and demo 28 March 2012, photo Socialist Party
Save the Remploy factories – not for sale or closure at any price
The closure of 54 Remploy factories potentially can affect everyone in the UK. Disability can strike anyone in any socio-economic group, at any time.
International socialist news and analysis
French presidential election – An emerging left challenge
The first round of the French presidential election will be held on 22 April. The UK mass media has concentrated its coverage on the conservative candidate and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy
Spain: Workers gear up for general strike
Million Hoodies March against racist murders in the US
Thousands of people have taken part in ‘Million Hoodie Marches’ and vigils in the US, including in New York, Miami, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, to demand justice for 17 year old African American Trayvon Martin
Socialist Party review
Review: We must look – the photographs of Don McCullin
The life’s work of one of the world’s greatest living photographers, Don McCullin is on show until 15 April at London’s Imperial War Museum…
