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Socialist Party news and analysis
Let’s organise an autumn of action against austerity
In the last 12 months the destruction of the NHS, the proposed privatisation of Royal Mail, the disappearance of vital council services in whole swathes of the country, together with the scandals of blacklisting and zero-hour contracts, have contributed to a seething anger which is reflected even in the TUC
NSSN lobby of TUC congress September 2013, photo Paul Mattsson
NSSN rally calls for mass action to stop the cuts
Disaffiliate from pro-capitalist Labour
In a speech at the 2013 congress of the TUC, PCS president Janice Godrich set out the reality of Austerity Britain: 13 million people live in poverty, up by a million since the Coalition came to power; 1.8 million families are on housing waiting lists; half a million people are now reliant on food banks
Janice Godrich, President of PCS, speaking at the NSSN lobby of the TUC congress 2013, called Miliband to account
Teaching unions prepare for campaign of autumn strikes
Martin Powell-Davies addresses the NSSN lobby of TUC congress 2013, photo by Socialist Party
TUC congress dominated by questions of joint action and links to Labour Party
The government’s Alice in Wongaland recovery
Zero faith in Labour on zero-hours
27% of parents with children aged 21 to 40 still have at least one adult child living at home, according to research by the National Housing Federation (NHF).
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Bolton victory shows we can beat the bedroom tax
Last month the Bolton at Home housing association became the first in the country to introduce a policy of “no homelessness” for those tenants in arrears because of the bedroom tax, writes Matt Kilsby.
Leeds anti-bedroom tax demonstration 21 April 2013, photo Mid Shelley
Large counter-demo against racist EDL
Merseyside People’s Assembly – A lost opportunity
Socialist Students
Reinvigorate the student movement: Protest, occupy, strike for our education
This autumn’s new students will be the second batch forced to pay the Con-Dems’ extortionate £9,000 a year price tag for university education, writes Ian Pattison , Socialist Students national chair.
National Demo against Sussex University Privatisation, photo Serena Chung
International socialist news and analysis
The bloody coup against the Popular Unity government – lessons for workers’ struggles today: In Chile on 11 September 1973 a bloody coup, led by general Pinochet and backed by the US administration, overthrew Allende’s government
Chile 1973 – Never Again! Cartoon by Alan Hardman
Obama’s drums of war fail to win support for Syria strike
As the G20 summit in Russia ended, the capitalist powers internationally were divided into two opposing camps on whether to launch a military attack on Syria
Socialist Party workplace news
One Housing Group (OHG) workers blowing vuvuzelas and whistles and waving Unite flags and placards made sure that no-one in Chalk Farm, north London, was unaware of their latest five day strike
Candy from One Housing speaking at the NSSN lobby of TUC, 8.9.13, photo Paul Mattsson
Yorkshire Ambulance: The battle against union derecognition
Around 40 Unite members and supporters protested outside Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) headquarters near Wakefield on 3 September
POA members hold meeting outside HMP Leeds
Socialist Party reviews
Art review: The vanity of small differences
It is rare today for an artist’s work to address the existence of class. The self-appointed arbiters of culture tell us that class is outdated and irrelevant save for the occasional, fearful, pause to shout ‘chav’ at working class youth
