The Socialist 13 April 2016

Panama papers, steel crisis, junior doctors' contract, austerity...Tories out!

Panama Papers reveal corrupt system of the 1%

Austerity not needed

Reactionary EU campaigners implicated by Panama Papers

Another Fifa corruption scandal

Houses for offshore investment, we're stuck at home

Nationalise to save all Steel jobs

Save BIS Sheffield: we won't be a Northern Poorhouse!

RMT branch calls for TUSC backing to continue

Doctors fight on against imposed contracts

Construction workers defend jobs and pay

Workplace news in brief

Review: 'Militant' by Michael Crick

Solidarity with refugees: fight for jobs, homes and services for all

Campaigning for scholarships for refugees - and free education for all

France: full-scale struggle with government is erupting

Bangladesh: stop the Rampal power project

Brazil: solidarity with attacked civil servants

International Panama Papers protests

Bosses back EU to boost NHS sell-offs

Library occupation ends with march on cutting council

Sales of the Socialist on the rise, read all about it!

No A-level courses in Knowsley thanks to 'academies' system

Workers and youth unite to defend vital services

"Not the church, not the state - women must decide their fate!"

Huddersfield A&E fightback grows

Demonstration to defend the NHS in Leicester

Worcestershire: hands off our health service!

Letter: Women and work

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Reactionary EU campaigners implicated in Panama Papers

RMT banner No to EU austerity, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)

Clive Heemskerk, TUSC national election agent

One aspect of the Panama Papers revelations not widely commented on is the links with the reactionary Vote Leave and Grassroots Out EU referendum campaigns of some of the 'offshore investors' named.

This is significant. The Electoral Commission is currently deciding which of these two organisations, or a third - the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) - will be appointed as the official Leave campaign in June's referendum.

The group chosen will be given access to TV broadcasts and substantial public resources - a £13 million free mailshot for starters.

It would be a scandal if taxpayers' money went to organisations whose backers do everything to avoid paying tax.

At the very least the Electoral Commission should do a proper audit of the business backers of Grassroots Out and Vote Leave before they make their designation decision.

Alternatively, they can designate TUSC as the lead campaign for Leave. You won't find our supporters on the Panama lists.

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