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Socialist Party news and analysis
We must stop them!: The axe is about to be wielded again and this time it is a huge one. ‘Black April’ will see a further round of savage austerity, which will alter the very fabric of life, writes Peter Taaffe
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
PCS: Striking against Con-Dem attacks
Build for joint action against austerity: The strike on 20 March was excellent, with an impressive turnout of PCS members. PCS vice president John McInally spoke to the Socialist about the next steps in the dispute
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard, photo Paul Mattsson
Call for national strike narrowly defeated at NUT conference
Joint teachers’ strike starts in north west on 27 June:NUT conference voted to back the priority motion on “Protecting Teachers, Defending Education”, thus endorsing the plan of action agreed with the other main teaching union, NASUWT
Tower Hamlets NUT joint strike action with Unison 31/3/11, photo by N Byron
International socialist news and analysis
Cyprus: Working people must not pay for crisis of euro and capitalism
Niall Mulholland spoke with Athina Kariati from New Internationalist Left (CWI in Cyprus) about Cyprus’s deal with the Troika, what it will mean for working people and what is the socialist solution to the crisis
Cyprus workers protest against the Cypriot government’s deal with the Troika – the IMF, Central bank and the EU, photo AFPTV J. Massad
Socialist Party feature
Abolition of Agricultural Wages Board will result in increased rural poverty
The government is set to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) for agricultural workers in England and Wales in October…
Socialist Party workplace news
On 30 April around 15 pickets assembled outside St Johns Centre crown post office in Leeds as Communication Workers Union (CWU) members took strike action over plans to close or franchise 76 offices across the country
Teaching Assistants strike for agreed pay level
Strike at Horizon and Downsview special needs schools, 26.3.13, photo .
Thera East Midlands: Joe Warner, the (now former) managing director of Thera East Midlands has resigned. Unison members who are in dispute with the company had been wondering where he was!
Fighting the Bedroom Tax
Over 5,000 march in Glasgow against the Bedroom Tax
Over 5,000 people from across west Scotland and beyond marched in Glasgow on Saturday 30 March against the bedroom tax but also against the impact of savage austerity in all its forms, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland.
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
Anti-cuts Warrington councillor supports Bedroom Tax protest
Opposing the Bedroom Tax in Leeds
Fight to scrap the bedroom tax is underway in Swansea
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Sussex University: occupation over but campaign continues
After nearly two months, the student occupation at Sussex University has ended in eviction by police at the request of university management, writes Jack Poole, Brighton Socialist Party.
National Demo against Sussex University Privatisation, photo by Serena Chung
Lakanal fire: Action needed to prevent a repeat tragedy
Workfare and the Labour Party: ‘A less than stellar party’
Like many people I was astounded by the Parliamentary Labour Party abstention on the emergency legislation enacted to undo the legal victory won by Cait Reilly and Jamieson Wilson against forced workfare, writes Nancy Taaffe
TUSC Mary4Mayor campaign launched in Doncaster
It was not the easiest week to start the Mary4Mayor election campaign with snow and freezing temperatures and the Easter holidays, writes Alistair Tice, Yorkshire Socialist Party.
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, addresses the Trade Unionists and Socialist Coalition in Doncaster for Mary Jackson, photo by A Tice
Sick Of Your Boss: young people in work – your stories
I’m a first-year student midwife at a Birmingham NHS trust. I was well aware of the realities of the job before I started the course, from the grave responsibility of ensuring mother and baby are alive and well, to dealing with abusive families and social services matters, to coming home drenched in all manner of bodily fluids.
Interview: Wirral Youth Theatre cuts
“Is green growth possible?” debated
