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Socialist Party news and analysis
Hundreds of thousands of workers in Higher Education and the fire, post and probation services are preparing to take strike action. This proves to the bosses and their Con-Dem government that the battle against their cuts is continuing.
Postal workers join university staff, firefighters and probation officers preparing to take strike action, photo Paul Mattsson
Trade unions must learn lessons from Grangemouth setback
Ongoing US spying row reveals new tensions between imperialist powers
Widespread anger across the world and embarrassment in Washington greeted the news that the US security services and those of its closest allies, particularly Britain, have been spying both on their supposed allies and tens of millions of ordinary people around the world.
I hate SSE because of a boiler not installed when promised, leaving my family, including two young children, without hot water for four weeks this summer, writes Ronnie Job
Most workers given a P45 are lucky to get a week’s statutory redundancy pay for every year employed. But not if you’re an MP who was given the elbow in the last cabinet reshuffle
International socialist news and analysis
Brazil: “Rio, a showcase for the world”
Contradictions between prosperous Brazil and precarious conditions bring potential for struggle: After the massive mobilisations that took place all over Brazil in June, the struggles did not cease
Brazilians in London protest on 13 June 2013 in support of the struggles in Brazil, photo H Pattison
Ireland: Victimising the vulnerable
It has been a terrible week for social protection in Ireland. This Social Welfare Bill and the budget make swinging economic attacks
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Zero-hour contracts can be beaten!
The CBI, the organisation representing Britain’s bosses, touts zero-hour contracts as the solution to the youth unemployment crisis
Jarrow March 2011: Jarrow March for Jobs arrives in London, photo Paul Mattsson
Mental health services – fighting privatisation in Salford
Linking unionised staff, carers and service user groups produced a formidable force that stopped privatisation
Building the fightback – building the Socialist Party
Southampton Socialist Party held a meeting as a follow on to our ‘join the socialists’ stall of the previous weekend.
Support the Socialism 2013 appeal
Socialist Party feature
20 years of privatised train robbery
November marks 20 years since John Major’s Tory government gave the go-ahead to splitting up and selling off British Rail
RMT lobby against privatisation on the railways, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party workplace news
Teachers: no national action this term
After three well-supported joint regional strikes by the NASUWT and NUT unions, teachers were expecting the NUT executive to confirm the promised date for action in November
Teachers strike and march in Bristol 17 October 2013 as part of selective action by the NUT and NASUWT, photo Matt Carey
31 October will be a day of coordinated strike action by UCU, Unison and Unite members working in universities
Probation workers strike against privatisation
No offshoring Shared Services!
Socialist Party NHS campaigning
Bail out hospitals, not bankers!
Simon Stevens was an adviser to former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair on beginning the privatisation process in the NHS
Demonstration against NHS cuts at Whipps Cross hospital, East London 21 September 2013, photo Paul Mattsson
Waltham Forest Unison Health meeting
Campaign launched against downbanding in Swindon
A big dispute has developed at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, the biggest hospital in Wiltshire
Attacks on NHS pay will damage services
Like many employees of the NHS, I reacted with horror when I heard of Jeremy Hunt’s plans to scrap our promised 1% pay rise and use the money to restructure our pay, writes a Unison health member in Salford.
Readers’ reviews and comments
Sexism in the music industry exposed
Slutwalk London 22 September 2012, photo Paul Mattsson
TV Review: Brand new revolution?
In between the quick jibes and quite cleverly worked silliness, Russell Brand unleashed an absolutely damning indictment of capitalism