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Socialist Party news and analysis
Fight for every job: The civil service union PCS has just scored an important victory in the fight against cuts. 43 of its members working in the Department for Work and Pensions were threatened with compulsory redundancy
For a 24 hour public sector general strike now, photo by Paul Mattsson
London copter crash ‘accident waiting to happen’
Changes to ESA: more attacks on disabled people
On 28 January changes to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) come into force that will see hundreds of thousands of sick and disabled people at risk of losing vital benefits, writes Matt Gordon, Bristol Socialist Party.
Hardest Hit Protest:, photo Paul Mattsson
The Con-Dems’ bedroom tax, due to be introduced this spring, is not just another attack on the unemployed but also on working people who, like 93% of new claimants in 2010 and 2011, are forced through low pay and massive private rent costs to rely on housing benefit
Socialist Party reviews
Book review: Planning for the Planet
How socialism could save the environment. The cover bears a striking image of a polar bear marooned on an iceberg: summing up the devastation of global warming, writes Paul Moorhouse.
Flooding in Gloucester in 2007, photo Chris Moore
International socialist news and analysis
USA – Workers start to demand change
In November 2012 Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative, the Socialist Party’s counterpart in the USA, stood in Seattle in the election for a seat in the Washington state house.
Kshama Sawant, photo Socialist Alternative
The four-day hostage crisis at the In Amenas gas facility in south east Algeria and its bloody outcome have sent shockwaves internationally
Imperialism carved up the planet
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Ystrad Mynach: Give us back our A&E!
Stop all hospital cuts: Many people have been turned away from Ystrad Mynach hospital. One man took his child to the hospital, only to be told that nobody was qualified to administer treatment
Stop all hospital cuts
‘You won’t see an investment banker with a hose’
Matt Wrack, FBU geneal secretary,London lobby of fire authority, 21 January 2013, photo Neil Cafferky
Southampton: Give youth a future!
Opposition is growing to the destruction of youth services in Southampton. If the cuts go ahead the council will provide nothing
Save Southampton City Youth Services held a lively protest outside the civic centre supported by anti-cuts councillors Keith Morrell and Don Thomas, photo Socialist Party
Building an anti-cuts voice in council elections
New Labour-led Lambeth council called the Brixton Hill byelection for 17 January, minimising scrutiny of their cuts programme with a short election campaign period.
East London school rejects ‘academisation’
Parents, governors and teachers have all proclaimed a definite “No” to converting their school, Thomas Gamuel Primary in Walthamstow, East London, to an academy, writes Linda Taaffe
Hannah Mainstone speaking on the Cardiff Against the Cuts protest (with Ross Saunders), photo Becky Davis
Manchester: fightback needed in city of extreme poverty
More than half of Greater Manchester’s population – 1.6 million – could soon be struggling below the poverty line, according to the Greater Manchester Poverty Commission, with 600,000 people already living in “extreme poverty”
Demonstration at start of Tory Party conference, 2.10.11 , photo Paul Mattsson
Bristol mayor says ‘out with the new, in with the cuts’
When Bristol businessman and former Liberal Democrat George Ferguson reinvented himself as an ‘independent’ and won the mayoral election in November, he claimed his success signified: “a new way of doing things”
Leicester: Build a united campaign for community resources
Over a year ago an Islamic charity, As-Salaam, tried to buy a disused scout hut on Thurnby Lodge estate in Leicester, intending to use it as a prayer room and community resource, for Muslims and non-Muslims
Socialist Party workplace news
London teachers call for strike action against Performance Related Pay
Nearly 300 NUT reps from across London made it clear they want their union executive to vote for strike action
NUT protest outside the Department of Education by teachers and parents opposed to the GCSE regrading in August 2012 , photo Neil Cafferky
Victory at Runcorn Thermal Power Station
