The Socialist 27 January 2016

Housing: smash the Tory wrecking bill

Housing: smash the Tory wrecking bill

Davos summit: a broken capitalist system

Google pays pittance for avoiding £2bn tax

Red doors and wristbands scandal

Steelworkers may face benefit cut-off for not seeking bar jobs

Oscars snub black artists: fight racism and austerity in the arts

Labour councillor smears TUSC policy as 'BNP'

Them & Us

Top tweets: #TraditionallySubmissive

Teaching: a perfect storm is brewing

Teachers need national strategy for a national struggle

A day in the life of a teacher and mother

New wave of protests in Tunisia

India: student death exposes caste oppression

Tories 'Prevent' civil liberties

Labour councillor suspended for fighting cuts

Dave Nellist's byelection appeal to Jeremy Corbyn: 'let's discuss how to fight the cuts'

Labour election post-mortem: nothing to report!

The dark arts of Labour's right

Councillors must fight to defend our services

'People's budgets' and local democracy

Lewisham: no backsliding in council cuts fight!

"I have left work many times in tears" - a council worker

Trade union bill will stretch resources and limit action

Birmingham teachers strike to resist academy attack

24-hour tube strike suspended

Care services under threat in Haringey

Workplace news in brief

The end for deep coal mining jobs in Britain

Obituary: Dean Meehan 1962-2016

Letters

Protesting against closure of Huddersfield A&E

Coventry children's services closure protest

New Socialist Party branch fights against St Austell austerity

Socialist Party discusses the fight for socialism

Socialist Students bake-off

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Brum bunglers

Birmingham council's Labour leaders keep telling us that there is no alternative to the massive cuts they intend to carry out at the behest of the Tory government.

Such pleas may be a bit more acceptable if they knew what they were doing. It was revealed recently that council refuse trucks are too big to drive down some of the city's narrower streets!

Clive Walder, Birmingham

Useless Ukip

What a strange year 2015 was for the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip)!

They predicted a 25-seat success at the general election, and not even leader Nigel Farage was elected as an MP.

Since that time, the party has reportedly lost over a third of members, funding is drying up and there are two separate investigations into its European parliament group.

More recently, the defection of their Pontypridd candidate to Labour has provided a rich source of local embarrassment.

Ukip has been boasting about the prospect of winning nine seats at the Welsh Assembly elections in May 2016.

But judging by the penury of their past predictions I very much doubt they will manage even a third of that.

Political change is entirely necessary after 16 years of right-wing Labour rule, but Welsh voters deserve so much better than the embarrassing circus of Ukip's self-absorbed antics.

Daniel Pitt, Rhondda Cynon Taf

Job rejection rejection

Sue Powell from Gloucester imagines a job seeker replying to a rejection letter:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Many thanks for your letter. Having carefully considered your rejection of my application, I regret to inform you that I have come to the conclusion that I am unable to accept this rejection.

I have already received a large number of rejections this year, so I am not in a position to accept any further rejections for the time-being. Consequently, your rejection cannot be taken into consideration.

Unfortunately, despite the friendly tone of your standard rejection letter, it does not meet my current requirements and for this reason I must inform you that I will commence the traineeship I applied for.

I would like to wish you good luck in your future endeavours to reject job applications and sincerely hope that your next attempt is successful.

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