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Socialist Party news and analysis
TUC must set date for 24-hour general strike: Asked what he wanted to achieve in 2013, Tory Chancellor George Osborne is reputed to have declared: “My main aim this year is to avoid f-ing up the budget.”
Austerity is failing – banner on the 20 October 2012 TUC demonstration against austerity, photo by Paul Mattsson
Resist all attacks on trade union facility time
Dave Warren, PCS rep Swansea DVLA, takes part in the PCS National day of protest on 30 November 2012: ‘Don’t rip up our rights’, photo R. Job
The Work Programme isn’t working
20 out of 9,500. That’s how many former incapacity benefit claimants were placed in jobs lasting longer than three months
Scotland Youth Fight for Jobs arrives in Glasgow, 20 October 2012, photo by Matt Dobson
Will the Tories play the benefits card?
Foodbank figures reveal reality of austerity
International socialist news and analysis
South Africa: Big response for Workers’ and Socialist Party
The conference of the Democratic Socialist Movement pledged to continue the fight against the brutal mining bosses and ruthless South African capitalists, writes Peter Taaffe
CWI flag at meeting of Harmony Gold workers, South Africa, February 2013 , photo by DSM
Italian election – Results resolve nothing
Socialist Party workplace news
Oil tanker drivers show their industrial strength
BP tanker drivers at the Grangemouth oil refinery last week came out on a 72-hour strike against cuts to pay and pensions
The 2008 Shell oil tanker drivers’ strike was successful, photo Bob Severn
Socialists strengthened on NUT executive
Pete Glover
London workers lobby GLA about cuts and conditions
RMT security and safety staff strike against bullying and harassment and an attempt to impose workplace changes without agreement 25th February 2013 , photo P Mitchell
Housing support – workers and service users under attack
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Southampton: Councillors must fight attacks on council services
No cuts! Save jobs!: In Southampton youth workers and young people are campaigning to stop the decimation of youth services…
Southampton councillors Keith Morrell and Don Thomas, photo Southampton SP
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition: building an anti-cuts electoral voice
Eastleigh byelection: The Eastleigh byelection circus has left many voters out in the cold as the real stories of foodbanks, unemployment, benefit cuts and the closure of the local Ford Transit factory are ignored
Hull: build an unstoppable force
A walk down Holderness Road, east Hull, tells the story. Instead of traditional shops and businesses, there are charity shops, pay-day loan sharks, money lenders, pawn shops and betting shops.
East Midlands Ambulance Service
Marching against cuts in Coventry
Around 150 people marched in Coventry city centre on 23 February in protest at £61 million of cuts threatened by councillors
Socialist Party Scotland conference
On 16-17 February, Socialist Party Scotland (SPS) held its largest conference since the relaunch of the Scottish section of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in 2001
Socialist history
45 years since the Ford Dagenham strike: women workers still fighting for decent pay
The marvellous victory of the women factory workers in the machine shop at Ford Dagenham rings as loudly today as it did 45 years ago, writes Linda Taaffe, National Shop Stewards Network.
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Should socialists support GM foods?
Debate over the genetic modification of crops raises questions for socialists and environmentalists as to the role of GM, as well as the wider issue of science under capitalism
