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Socialist Party news and analysis
Organise for strike action now: Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt has declared war on NHS workers. He has imposed a 1% non-consolidated pay rise for 2014-15 and 2015-16 and no yearly incremental rises for the 600,000 staff who are not at the top of their pay band
Unison NHS workers on strike against huge cuts in the Mid-Yorkshire Trust hospitals, photo Iain Dalton
Tony Benn: steadfast in speaking out for socialism
After Bob Crow and Tony Benn: We fight on!
What we think: A deluge of tributes followed the sad and shocking death of Bob Crow, elected leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union
No to bosses’ EU – For a socialist Europe
The question of a referendum over Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) is problematic for all the mainstream capitalist parties, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary.
On Saturday 22 March, as part of the UN’s International Anti-Racism Day, the TUC has coordinated marches in London, Cardiff and Glasgow
The ‘debate’ in the run up to Tory Chancellor Osborne’s Budget statement missed the point. It should have been about whether the government’s austerity was really necessary
Oxfam report: A tale of capitalist inequality
Oxfam has reported that, in Britain, five super-rich families own more wealth than the poorest 20% of the population
International socialist news and analysis
Crimea referendum will not deliver peace and stability
Crimea’s 16 March referendum saw an overwhelming majority vote in favour of joining Russia. According to the claimed official result, 96.77% voted ‘for’ integration and turnout was 83.1%
South Africa: WASP registers for the 2014 elections
The Workers And Socialist Party (WASP) in South Africa has registered for this year’s elections to the national assembly and for the provincial legislatures of North West, Limpopo and Gauteng
Activists in the US demand $15 Now!
On 15 March a national day of action took place across the US as part of the 15 Now campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage
Socialist Party workplace news
Defend education: Solidarity with teachers’ strike
The strike of National Union of Teachers (NUT) members on 26 March is most definitely on! Now every NUT Association and every school rep must go all out to get the biggest possible turnout for the national strike
Members of the teachers’ union NUT on the 26 March TUC demonstration , photo Suzanne Beishon
Doncaster care workers determined to win
On Wednesday 19 March, Care UK workers in Doncaster began their second seven-day strike. This comes just two weeks after the end of the first strike and demonstrates the determination of the staff to win
Ealing hospital workers fight miserly Medirest
Striking GMB pickets were again out in force on 17 March. The workers at Ealing Hospital in west London were on a seven-day strike against poverty pay
Blacklisting: The report into blacklisting from the Scottish Affairs Select Committee was published on 14 March. The report calls for blacklisting firms to be banned from publicly funded contracts
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Fight for real jobs for young people
Join the day of action on 29 March: As budget day approached, mainstream politicians and media were scrambling around to look good or mud sling on the issue of youth unemployment and the economy in general
Sick of Your Boss? Youth Fight for Jobs campaigning, photo Nancy Taaffe
Election Appeal: Put your money where the struggle is!
At its recent national congress the Socialist Party launched an appeal to raise £15,000 to help finance our 2014 election campaigns
Over recent years we have had brilliant May Day displays in the Socialist. Let’s aim to repeat that success in 2014
Pensioner jailed for non-payment
Ross Longhurst of Nottingham, aged 72 and a longstanding campaigner, has been jailed for 28 days for not paying his council tax
A TUSC stall in Derby with the new banner
Obituary: Stan Pearce, a Militant miner
I heard the sad news that Stan Pearce has died. In a week that commemorated the 30th anniversary of the strike, Stan’s passing ranks with that of Bob Crow and Tony Benn for a whole generation of Marxist miners
Readers’ comments and reviews
The third series of the BBC’s Call the Midwife finished recently. The programme is based on the real life memoirs of Jennifer Worth (formerly Lee) who worked as a midwife in London’s east end in the 1950s
Genetic Modification: A contribution to the debate
The recent article in the Socialist issue 800 on genetic modification (GM) was an excellent antidote to the plethora of reactionary anti-science nonsense which prevails in a lot of media today