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The Socialist issue 818

9 July 2014

Super-rich flash cash at Tory bash

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The Socialist issue 818

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotSuper-rich flash cash at Tory bash

Cameron and his Tory chums can shout that “we’re all in this together” until they’re even bluer in the face – but nobody believes them

Super-rich flash cash at Tory bash


spotAfter 10 July – build workers’ movement

Up to two million public sector workers will strike against rotten poverty pay on 10 July (J10)

spotNSSN – Organising the resistance

spotJunk Juncker, Cameron and the anti-worker EU

David Cameron suffered a humiliating defeat by 26 votes to 2, when attempting to block Jean-Claude Juncker becoming the next EU president

spotNew Tory attacks on trade union strikes

spotSuper-rich Tory MP profits from evictions

spotCoulson faces prosecution over Tommy Sheridan

Convicted phone hacker Andy Coulson now faces perjury charges after giving evidence that led to the jailing of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan, also on a perjury charge, in December 2010, writes More in a future issue.

spotEmergency: Con-Dems don’t care

spotThem & Us

Capita idea: Big business continues to gorge on the public services honey pot, courtesy of the government’s privatisation programme

International socialist news and analysis

spotIsrael-Palestine: Netanyahu government fuels protests

The Israeli government has launched another series of air strikes and bombardments on the besieged population of Gaza under the name operation “protective edge”. This is yet another step of escalation by the Israeli government that brings closer the threat of a wider conflict

CWI members take part in protests against the Israeli government attacks on Gaza

CWI members take part in protests against the Israeli government attacks on Gaza


Socialist Party workplace news

spotUnite conference reflects growth of socialist ideas

Len McCluskey, in his general secretary’s opening address, said that Unite’s major focus of the next ten months had to be the election of a Labour government

One Housing Group workers, members of Unite, striking against massive pay cuts, photo Naomi Byron

One Housing Group workers, members of Unite, striking against massive pay cuts, photo Naomi Byron


spotArgos workers strike for work-life balance

spotLocked-out pathology staff “cannot give in”

spotNSSN supporters back striking Tyneside Safety Glass workers

spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotNHS: No to cuts!

The £200,000-a-year chief executive of University Hospitals Leicester, John Adler, is planning to cut maternity services at Leicester General Hospital

TUC demo in Manchester: 50,000 march against Tories in September 2013 demanding action on NHS, photo Paul Mattsson

TUC demo in Manchester: 50,000 march against Tories in September 2013 demanding action on NHS, photo Paul Mattsson


spotHelp fund the fight against the 1%

With a magnificent final effort, raising just under £12,000 in the final two weeks of the campaign, members of the Socialist Party reached 97% of the national fighting fund target for the April to June quarter

spotWhy I joined the Socialist Party

spotReading the revolution

spotExposing Ukip’s lies in Bracknell

Readers’ comments

spotFracking: short-term profit before safety

A recent major study – released by the British Geographical Survey and Environment Agency – has raised fresh concerns over the potential of fracking to contaminate our drinking water

Barton Moss anti-fracking protesters, March 2014, photo D Murphy

Barton Moss anti-fracking protesters, March 2014, photo D Murphy


spotLabour rejects rail renationalisation

spotRobert Service’s historical prejudice on Liverpool

spotBritain’s non-investing, cheap wage bosses

Recent research by two LSE professors confirms what the Socialist Party has said for a long time. It shows that Britain’s capitalist class have failed in their historic mission to invest

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