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The Socialist 13 July 2016

Organise the resistance: fight the Tories and the Blairites

Child poverty rises by 200,000 in a year

Welsh Assembly to scrap 'right to buy'

Nine-month prison sentence for fleeing ethnic cleansing

HSBC jailbreak

Rail fail

What we saw: Angela Eagle Facebook meme

Them & Us

Fight racism: for jobs, homes and services for all

Police racism still lethal in Britain

Majority support migrants staying - fight hate crime

Step up the campaign to back Corbyn's fight

Tory coronation is attempt at stability that can't work

Chilcot Iraq report: More piles of evidence against the blood-soaked war for oil

Angry prison officers walk out over reforms

New threat to impose junior doctors contract must be met with strike action

Vote Chas Berry for Napo national chair

Unite policy conference 2016: Blairite coup, Trident and cuts dominate opening days

Workplace news in brief

Spain: Disappointment for left in re-run general election

CWI in brief

Thousands mobilising to #KeepCorbyn

Why I joined: "I no longer felt isolated from politics"

Fight back is on to save NHS heart services

Sales of the Socialist through the roof since the referendum

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Them & Us

Them and us fishes, photo Suzanne Beishon (Click to enlarge)

Theresa May

War in Iraq

Voted for
1,033,000 - Estimated casualties between 2003 and 2007 as a result of the conflict (ORB, 2007)

Benefit cap

Voted for
64% - Of people affected by the benefit cap are single parents (Mirror, 2015). This autumn it will lower even further, while the cost of living continues to rise

Income

Theresa May: £117,350 (declared taxable pay, 2014-15) plus MP's expenses
UK median disposable income: £25,600 (ONS estimate, October 2015)

Bedroom tax

Voted for
Three in four benefit claimants hit by the bedroom tax had to cut back on food to pay it; 46% had to cut back on heating (CCHPR/Ipsos Mori, 2015)

Tax dodging

Voted against measures to reduce it
£122 billion a year - Estimated combined cost of illegal tax evasion - £85 billion, legal avoidance - £19 billion, and non-payment - £18 billion (PCS, 2014)

Net worth

Theresa May: £1.6 million (estimated value of property portfolio, 2010) - over ten times the national average
UK average: £147,134 (Irwin Mitchell solicitors, 2014)

This isn't just any pay cut...

This is an M&S pay cut. The retailer has announced plans to slash premiums for Sundays, bank holidays and unsocial hours, affecting 7,000 workers. It will also cut pensions contributions for 11,000.

This is an attempt to pass a dip in sales profits onto hard-pressed staff.

Management is trying to hide the cut by also introducing a basic rate increase of 15%.

The Socialist says: make the bosses pay! Take the loss from their profits, not our wages.

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Child poverty rises by 200,000 in a year