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The Socialist 13 January 2016

NHS not safe in Tory hands

The Socialist issue 884

Corbyn must lead a fight against the right and for an anti-austerity programme


NHS not safe in Tory hands

Junior doctors' strike: picket photos and reports

Health workers under attack!

Doctors battle burnout as 100 full-up GP surgeries apply to shut their doors

"Shattered but proud", a day in the life of a student nurse

Student nurses march to oppose bursary cut


Bosses 'earn' year's pay in under a week

BBC planned live Labour resignation to damage Corbyn

EU probes power plant for wrongdoing over switch from coal to biomass

What We Saw

Them & Us


Slums, speculation, sell-offs and sardines

Cameron's housing con

Housing staff strike against cuts

Cameron's 10,000 new homes won't hide the problem

476,000 homes in England go unbuilt by speculators


A clear strategy to defeat the Tory cuts

Council uses reserves to stop cuts

Councillors must resist cuts

Southampton people's budget meeting


Victor Jara's revolutionary life, poetry and politics

Letters


Sexual assaults in Cologne exploited by racist establishment and far right

Saudi Arabia mass executions

Honduras: Day of the endangered lawyer


West Dunbartonshire teachers strike

Energy-filled pickets at EDF

Workplace news in brief


"We hope to inspire people to go out and spread their passion for the Socialist"

Report: Socialist Party national women's meeting

Eleanor Marx: a life of struggle, solidarity and socialism

 
 
 
 
 

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What We Saw

New wave quintet Squeeze put the - er - squeeze on David Cameron on the Andrew Marr show on 10 January.

The band changed the lyrics of its November 2015 single 'Cradle to the Grave' to protest against Tory housing policy. With true-blue Cameron turning red just feet away, frontman Glenn Tilbrook sang:

"I grew up in council houses

Part of what made Britain great

There are some here who are hell-bent

On the destruction of the welfare state"


Top tweets

The right-wing media is trying to smear striking medics as super-rich layabouts. The truth is that, while better paid than many, their strike is about defending the NHS as much as rightly protecting their working conditions. Doctors respond.

Deepan Sivakumar @d33pan

Working 12 days straight - no time for food shopping so treated myself to a meal deal, so decadent #SmearTheDocs

Jacquina @jacquina

Junior Doctor, 28, uses THREE bags for life for one week of shopping. Excessive.

Daniel Leopard @DanielLeopard

GP reg splashes out on luxury £1,600 exam and spends Sunday revising next to my pants #MoetMedics #SmearTheDocs

Dr Ben White @ProtocoIDriven

Tea-swilling Shock Doc Wears Live Cat Fur for Breakfast #SmearTheDocs


In this issue


What we think

Corbyn must lead a fight against the right and for an anti-austerity programme


NHS

NHS not safe in Tory hands

Junior doctors' strike: picket photos and reports

Health workers under attack!

Doctors battle burnout as 100 full-up GP surgeries apply to shut their doors

"Shattered but proud", a day in the life of a student nurse

Student nurses march to oppose bursary cut


Socialist Party news and analysis

Bosses 'earn' year's pay in under a week

BBC planned live Labour resignation to damage Corbyn

EU probes power plant for wrongdoing over switch from coal to biomass

What We Saw

Them & Us


Housing crisis

Slums, speculation, sell-offs and sardines

Cameron's housing con

Housing staff strike against cuts

Cameron's 10,000 new homes won't hide the problem

476,000 homes in England go unbuilt by speculators


Council cuts

A clear strategy to defeat the Tory cuts

Council uses reserves to stop cuts

Councillors must resist cuts

Southampton people's budget meeting


Readers' comments and reviews

Victor Jara's revolutionary life, poetry and politics

Letters


International socialist news and analysis

Sexual assaults in Cologne exploited by racist establishment and far right

Saudi Arabia mass executions

Honduras: Day of the endangered lawyer


Workplace news and analysis

West Dunbartonshire teachers strike

Energy-filled pickets at EDF

Workplace news in brief


Socialist Party reports and campaigns

"We hope to inspire people to go out and spread their passion for the Socialist"

Report: Socialist Party national women's meeting

Eleanor Marx: a life of struggle, solidarity and socialism


 

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