The Socialist 6 January 2016

Fight the flood of cuts

2016: Crisis-ridden capitalism will meet with bitter mood of resistance

No retreat on resisting council cuts!

Fight the flood of cuts

Support junior doctors' and student nurses' action

Another black man shot dead by the police

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Birmingham Labour to axe at least 1,200 jobs in £165m cuts onslaught

UK wage growth will be lowest since 1920s

NHS England chiefs block hospitals from publicising emergencies

What we saw: Sadiq Khan's promises on London transport

Them & Us

Floods, climate change and capitalism

Carlisle Socialist Party's action plan on floods

Profit system exacerbates flooding

Tories' hypocritical green policies pledge

Renationalise the water industry

No government majority as Podemos partially recovers

Union action needed to defeat attack on student nurses

Nationalise rail now! Rail workers strike around the country

Steel: public ownership needed as private buyers threaten pay and pensions

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Reader's letter

Renationalise the water industry

Why is no one stating the bleeding obvious over responsibility for the unprecedented floods?

Before the water industry was privatised, water boards were responsible for seeing that rivers were regularly maintained.

But when water was privatised, these elected officials were replaced with a lot of venture capitalists (or 'Spivs') from the City, who, expecting to make a profit, found that you can't actually run a public utility at a profit unless you dump some expensive, but vital, functions - like maintenance.

Water must be renationalised immediately, without compensation for the fat cats who have had enough out of us already. If anyone owes anybody compensation, it's the fat cats who owe us!