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Socialist Party news and analysis
Scotland in revolt against austerity
‘Yes’ support hits the Tories: Polls showing big growth in support for a Yes vote have sent dismay and terror coursing through Westminster’s capitalist elite
2013 Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax, which has now been defeated in Scotland, photo Jim Halfpenny
Scottish referendum: A mass revolt against austerity
The 6 September YouGov survey for the Sunday Times has sent shock waves through the capitalist political establishment in Britain
Students: Fight debt, poverty & capitalism
Abuse: Cuts have robbed us of the time to talk to these young people
The recent horrific report on the cover up of large scale child sexual abuse in Rotherham was analysed in the last issue of the Socialist (issue 823). The week we have a powerful view written from personal experience.
Bedroom Tax edges toward its doom
Government spending cuts deepen prisons’ crisis
British leaders back expansion of Nato war machine
The world does not look like a safer place after the Newport Nato Summit, held on 4-5 September
International socialist news and analysis
Ebola virus: Victims of a failed capitalist system
Infectious bodies rotting in the streets… health care facilities overwhelmed… health workers dying in shocking numbers. These horrific scenes are spreading across West Africa
Health workers in Liberia have been on strike demanding better protection from Ebola virus and improved pay
US: building a movement to end poverty pay!
Socialist Party workplace news
NSSN rally: Building pressure for coordinated action
Linda Taaffe, secretary of the National Shops Steward Network, welcomed over 150 people into a room meant for 100 for a NSSN rally on Sunday 7 September near the conference centre in Liverpool – the city hosting this year’s TUC congress.
NSSN supporters lobby the TUC following the rally on 6 September 2017, photo by Bob Severn
NUT members angry at lack of October strike action
I was recently elected as National Union of Teachers (NUT) executive member with a manifesto clearly stating we needed to escalate strike action, writes Jane Nellist, NUT executive member (personal capacity).
TUC votes for £10 minimum wage
Care UK workers set for longest NHS strike
Probation officers protest against privatisation
London bus demo: Unite’s “Driving Up Pay” campaign aims to win a common contract across all London’s bus companies
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Tamil Solidarity Day: a great success
Over 100 people from the Tamil, Turkish and Kurdish communities together with other activists and trade unionists celebrated Solidarity Day 2014 on 6 September, writes Akila Kumar, Tamil Solidarity student organiser.
Tamil Solidarity Day attendees listen to Unison executive member April Ashley, photo Fauzer Mahroof
Labour lets down NHS protesters
The People’s March for the NHS finished its 300 mile trek from Jarrow on 6 September when over 5,000 people joined it for a demonstration in London
North West marches for end to austerity
Hundreds of trade unionists from across the North West marched in Manchester on Saturday 6 September calling for an “End to Austerity”
TUSC councillors back taxi struggle
Socialist Party comments and reviews
At Unison’s 2007 conference, the union’s standing orders committee ruled out of order a third of branch motions, including ones questioning union strategies and the union’s link with Labour
Guardian story confirms councils can resist cuts
Aditya Chakrabortty’s Guardian story on the efforts of Enfield council to respond to the housing crisis shows that councillors can find ways to resist austerity if they choose to.
