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The Socialist issue 795

22 January 2014

Real living wage now

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The Socialist issue 795

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotReal living wage now

Mitie cleaning workers striking for decent pay on 21 January 2014, photo Neil Cafferky

Mitie cleaning workers striking for decent pay on 21 January 2014, photo Neil Cafferky


spotCapitalism is a system in crisis

spotPay me – I’m a banker!

spotWhat exactly is the point of Labour?

Ed Miliband and his shadow cabinet are going hell for leather with speeches and newspaper columns. They want to show how fit they are for election in 2015

spotStop the NHS sell-off

Oppose all cuts and privatisation: The National Health Service is still being privatised bit by bit but the process is speeding up rapidly

spotBedroom tax loophole: Can legal tactics be effective?

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that tenants who have been continuously entitled to housing benefit since at least 1 January 1996, and who have occupied the same home since that date, are exempt from the bedroom tax

spotFracking – profiting from environmental destruction

“We’re going all out for shale” – said David Cameron at the same time as he announced bribes to councils and local planning authorities in order to spread fracking operations across the country

spotThem & Us

Cost of living: 85 super-rich people in the world, in total, own as much wealth ($110 trillion) as half the world’s population of 3.5 billion people

International socialist news and analysis

spotEgypt referendum: no enthusiasm for new constitution

To no one’s surprise, 98% of Egyptian voters said yes to the new constitution in the recent referendum

spot“Ireland is a success story” rhetoric is based on spin

The entire ‘success story’ rhetoric of the Irish government, the European Commission and their hangers-on when promoting Ireland’s bailout exit is based on empty spin, hyperbole and untruths

Education

spotStop the student debt spiral – day of action 6 February

Part of a week of action opposing student loan privatisation: The Student Loan Company (SLC) is up for sale.

Young people march for a future, photo Senan


spotYouth Fight for Jobs campaign in Croydon

Socialist Party members held a successful Youth Fight for Jobs campaign stall in Croydon, South London on Saturday 18 January

spotAn open letter to Tristram Hunt

You have made it clear that you will revive the idea floated during the last Labour government of regular “relicensing” of teachers

Socialist Party workplace news

spotTransport workers have power to defeat cuts

Almost 1,000 jobs to go, all ticket offices to be closed, workers to lose as much as £10,000, new grades on lower wages. This is what faces Londoners if the Underground workers lose the battle that looms over the city

spotTeachers need a date for national action

Teachers are facing yet more attacks on our conditions, when our existing intolerable workload is already driving many teachers out of the profession

spotTeachers strike against threatened redundancies

spotNUT strikes against management “observations”

spotMore action needed to defend Probation Service

I recently attended a Unison seminar regarding the government’s proposals around the probation service

spotPublicity alone can’t save sacked union branch official

Polly Toynbee, well-known Guardian journalist and prominent Labour Party member, recently wrote a column highlighting the case of Charlotte Monro, chair of Whipps Cross Hospital Unison branch

spotWorkplace news in brief

Bus drivers’ strike: About 60 drivers, members of Unite, at First Hampshire and Dorset were on strike for 24 hours on 20 January in a dispute which has seen their pay fall dramatically behind their regional counterparts

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotLincoln marches against racism and fascism

On 18 January, around 150 people marched under the banner of Lincoln Against Racism and Fascism (LARF)

spotProtest against Atos ‘assessments’ on 19 February

Protests are planned to take place outside Atos assessment centres across the country

spotSalford workers and environmentalists challenge council

spotStop cuts in Kent

spotCarlisle petition

Readers’ comments and reviews

spotBenefits Street: A caricature of poverty

TV review: Channel 4’s recent controversial “documentary” series, Benefits Street claimed to depict life for residents of poverty stricken James Turner Street in Winson Green, Birmingham

spotLeeds’ forgotten dispute: The 1913-14 Corporation Strike

spotRobert Burns, insurrectionary poet

Every year the narrow-minded, conservative Robert Burns establishment ritually recite the same few poems and repeat ancient propaganda myths about him

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