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Socialist Party news and analysis
Hinchingbrooke hospital is in debt due to costs incurred from a PFI scheme introduced by Labour. Now Circle Healthcare has been brought in to manage and ‘save’ the hospital.
End the insane cycle of youth joblessness
In a dazzling display of talent a new generation of Olympians is breaking records set by their forebears. By brutal contrast 75 million 16 to 24 year olds globally have been thrown on the scrapheap of unemployment with no improvement of the situation in sight.
March together on 20 October and then strike together to stop all cuts
Sean Rigg inquest: damning verdict for police
The inquest into the death of Sean Rigg has returned a damning verdict for the police. The jury found the police used “unsuitable and unnecessary force” which contributed “more than minimally” to his death
Gove sneaking unqualified teachers into academies
London Olympics
Views on the Olympics and the opening ceremony
The reaction of the right wing to the Olympics opening ceremony says it all. It was attacked in a racist, reactionary, anti-working class article in the Daily Mail (later taken down from the paper’s website…
London Olympics opening ceremony
Transport ‘customer experience’ staff still fighting for Olympics bonus
Socialist Party workplace news
Vote No in Unison’s local government pension scheme ballot
Unison members in local government are being subjected to an avalanche of material from the union leadership, urging us to vote to accept the new pension deal, LGPS 2014, writes a Unison member.
Swansea DVLA staff protest at embarrassment of job cuts
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) Swansea branch of the PCS is holding a protest rally on 10 August at 12.30 outside the Department for Transport (DfT) Shared Services Centre in Swansea
Support Churchill cleaners, Tyne & Wear Metro
Tyne & Wear Metro cleaners, employed by Churchill, taking 48 hours of strike action, photo Elaine Brunskill
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Interview with Southampton rebel councillors
‘We weren’t elected to make cuts’: Two Southampton Labour Party councillors for Coxford ward, Keith Morrell and Don Thomas, have been investigated by the party whips
TUSC: Keeping up the pressure on the austerity parties
Socialist Students organise to fight fees and cuts
Workers win Wales Austerity Games despite bosses moving the goalposts!
Growing resistance to NHS cuts shown in Redditch
Portsmouth fans fight to save Fratton Park
Brighton pensioner jailed for non-payment of council tax
In 2011 Brighton and Hove became the first local authority in Britain to be run by the Greens. The Green manifesto looked forward to “a just and equal city where everybody is treated with kindness, respect and dignity”.
Welsh Labour: Red flag or white flag?
Obituary: Frank Mills, 1939 – 2012
International socialist news and analysis
Syria: Is there an alternative to the developing civil war?
Syria’s agony continues unabated. Across the country there are indiscriminate attacks by the Assad regime forces and their militias, bloody sectarian reprisals by the armed opposition, refugee floods and humanitarian disasters.
Devastated communities in Syria
