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Socialist Party news and analysis
Breadline Britain… Kick out the cuts coalition
Hundreds of thousands of young people suffer heart-rending experiences in their struggle for jobs, housing, education and basic services. The Socialist Party says firmly and clearly that there IS an alternative
Student poverty: Students on the NUS national demonstration 12 November 2012 against the government attacks on university education , photo by Paul Mattsson
Scrap the bedroom tax for all!
Welfare Reform Act will impoverish hundreds of thousands
Stop the Con-Dems ripping up our NHS
Equal pay?: The Royal Bank of Scotland is 83% owned by the government. That means that we’re paying for the bank’s £390 million fine for rigging interest rates.
International socialist news and analysis
Venezuela after Chavez: Which road for the working class?
The news of Hugo Chavez’s death brought thousands of Venezuelans rushing to Caracas’s main square, the Plaza Bolivar, to lament, writes Johan Rivas, Socialismo revolucionario (CWI, Venezuela).
Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, speaking on the role of the US government , photo Paul Mattsson
Portugal: Revolutionary spirit in fighting austerity
On 2 March, under the slogan “Screw the Troika – the people are the best rulers”, over 1.5 million people (out of a population of 10.7 million) reclaimed Portugal’s streets, in what even the media has speculated may have been the country’s biggest ever demonstrations, write CWI reporters.
Socialist Party feature
Energy starvation and climate change
Alternative energy and socialist planning needed: A spectre is haunting the world, the spectre of irreversible climate change. But at the same time the world is in the grip of a desperate hunger for energy, writes Geoff Jones.
Climate change demo December 2005 , photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist history
Three decades on: We want the truth about Orgreave
Over the last few months, the endemic corruption of South Yorkshire police during the 1980s has been exposed by the revelations surrounding the cover-up of the Hillsborough disaster. The chair of the recently launched Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, Barbara Jackson, spoke to the Socialist..
Miners’ strike 1984-85, photo Dave Sinclair
Socialist Party workplace news
20 March: PCS calls budget-day strike
Defend pay, pensions and conditions: After a ballot result of 61% in favour of strike action, the civil service union PCS national executive has announced a campaign of industrial action to fight back against attacks on civil servants’ pay, pensions and terms and conditions
DfE walkout – huge demonstration of anger
DfE 2 hour strike 7.3.13, outside the Sheffield office., photo Robbie Faulds
Dundee demo against construction industry blacklisting
150 construction workers, their families and supporters took part in an anti-blacklisting demonstration in Dundee on 9 March
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Victory: TUSC strikes a ‘real chord’ in Maltby
TUSC candidate Joe Robinson, 21-years old, was like a breath of fresh air as the winning candidate in the Maltby town council byelection, with 60% of the votes
Student occupation continues at Sussex
Over four weeks ago, following a mass demonstration of hundreds of students and campus workers at Sussex University against privatisation plans, a management centre was occupied and is still held by students
Student occupation continues at Sussex 13-3-13, photo Brighton and Hove Socialist Party
Justice for Alfie? Defend the right to protest
Alfie Meadows, who suffered brain injuries as a result of his treatment at the hands of the police during the 9 December 2010 student demonstration, has been cleared of violent disorder charges following his second retrial
Warrington: One rebel defies the pro-cuts Heinz 47
TUSC Gospel Oak byelection rally: Offering an alternative
TUSC leads battle to save Mid-Staffs NHS
“This was our first ever stall in Rugeley,” said TUSC candidate Paul Arnold. “We quickly ran out of leaflets and sold out of papers, but still carried on getting names to support our petition
London: Save our fire service!
On 16 March, firefighters and supporters will be out in force protesting against London mayor Boris Johnson’s plans to cut £50 million from London’s fire service, writes Chris Newby.
Victory for attendance policy campaign at UEL
Sold-out non-sexist comedy night
‘Rape is No Joke’ campaign comedy night, London 8.3.13, photo Suzanne Beishon
Building Socialist Students in Manchester
Are you sick of your boss? Join the campaign!
The ‘Sick of Your Boss’ initiative by Youth Fight for Jobs aims to win decent jobs, pay and working conditions for young workers as part of rebuilding a fighting democratic trade union movement
Socialist Party review
This film is a documentary, interviewing people who remember the mass movement to create the welfare state following World War Two, writes Katrine Williams, president of Cardiff Trades Council and Wales chair for the PCS civil service union
The Spirit of ’45, directed by Ken Loach, photo Ken Loach
