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Rob Williams, chair National Shop Stewards Network, speaking at the protest outside the South African embassy, photo Iain Dalton
National Shop Stewards Network
Lobby the TUC on 9 September: Demand a 24-hour strike against austerity
What we think: By most estimates, 80% to 85% of the Con-Dem cuts are still to come. But the so-called ‘easier’ cuts have been devastating. Since Osborne’s original autumn statement in October 2010 – only 20 months…
National Shop Stewards Network demonstration to lobby the TUC 11 September 2011, photo Sujeeth
Socialist Party Readers’ Comments
Zero-hour contracts mean zero rights
I was recently interviewed by BBC Two’s Newsnight after writing in the Socialist (issue 719) about zero-hour contracts and feel privileged to have spoken for the unemployed, writes Natalie Owen, Coventry, West Midlands.
Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside Downing Street on budget day 2012, photo Suzanne Beishon
Scrounger? The truth about living on the dole
Tottenham: a year since the riots
Socialist Party news and analysis
Fare rises and rail cuts: Kick the fat cats off our railways!
The RMT and POA call on parliament to unshackle the unions, photo Paul Mattsson
NHS: Dewsbury mass meeting opposes PFI
Another News of the World perjury charge
Yet another ex-News of the World (NoW) journalist has been charged with having committed perjury during the 2010 trial of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.
Tommy Sheridan in 2007
Doors close after A-level results
WikiLeaks and Assange: No extradition to the USA
The political furore over the attempt by the British government to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden over allegations of sexual offences was ratcheted up after UK foreign secretary William Hague threatened to revoke the diplomatic status of Ecuador’s embassy in London…
Shafilia Ahmed murder: A question of women’s rights
Tommy Walker – tribute to a working class fighter
Socialist Party workplace news
And the toilet seat medal goes to… Sheffield City Council!
Because that’s what around 100 Sheffield council craftsmen think about councillors and management that have left them earning up to £4,000 a year less than labourers after a re-grading exercise…
Southampton rebels continue fight against council cuts
Victory for One Housing workers
Draconian sentences for Pussy Riot protest will backfire on Putin
Builders plan to stop ‘Besna 2’ at Crown House
In Brief: POA rejects pensions offer
Members of the prison workers’ union POA have voted overwhelmingly to reject the final offer on changes to their pension scheme. The main attacks proposed are to force prison officers to work until they are 68 and to change the indexation from RPI to the generally lower measure, CPI.
Socialist Party feature
Food prices soar: “Please sir, may I have some more?” It’s not just Dickensian orphans who have to fight for the most basic staple – food…