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Right wing attempts to use single market against Corbyn
Socialist Party workplace news
Barts health strike: Low pay, no way!
Serco strikers in Barts health trust in east London have led a magnificent fight so far! And they have started a further 14-day strike
Birmingham bin workers stand firm
Birmingham Labour council is playing dirty in the ongoing bin dispute to defend 113 threatened jobs now that the action is beginning to bite
Bron Afon workers strike against £3,000 pay cut
Support workers for Bron Afon housing association in Cwmbran, south Wales, have taken their third day of strike action against a £3,000 annual pay cut imposed by management on the staff in the Supported Living Team.
Court victory for PCS and all trade unions
A High Court ruling that stated it was “unlawful” for the government to exclude the PCS union from negotiations
Tesco’s 10% pay increase accompanied by cuts and job losses
Tesco called it its “biggest ever pay award”
Mears workers escalate action to all-out strike
Unite members at Mears have been on strike for 3 days a week since 15 May
Workers’ campaign underway to stop ward closure
The staff understand that the fightback can only come from us, and by taking the campaign out into the community.
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including a job centre walkout in Sheffield and the UCU banned from a meeting in Teesside.
International socialist news and analysis
Building workers’ struggle and the forces of international socialism
The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI – the socialist international organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) recently convened its international summer school in Barcelona with Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR) and members from its sections in Spain, Mexico and Venezuela.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Abolish tuition fees and student debt!
Jeremy Corbyn’s election pledge to abolish tuition fees, with the bold promise that this would be fast-tracked to come into effect from September, was one of the most attractive and popular offers in Labour’s manifesto
Education cuts: Tories buckling under public pressure
The pressure of the growing campaign against education cuts is starting to have an effect on the government
The BBC has been made to reveal all its staff earning over £150,000 a year. The announcement made front page news in most papers, revealing some eye-watering pay
Homelessness and evictions soar under the Tories
120,000 children are currently in temporary accommodation according to the Local Government Association (LGA)
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including bosses’ profit, unpaid overtime, shrinking retail products and life expectancy.
Art and the Russian revolution
Russia 1917: how art helped make the revolution
Revolution in Russia swept away the dictatorial rule of the Tsar in February 1917. Then in October, led by the Bolshevik Party, a second revolution set up the world’s first workers’ state
Young Socialists
Young people…fight for a future, fight for socialist policies
Young people in the UK have faced brutal attacks from successive governments on our living standards and our futures.
Grenfell Tower
Grenfell survivors tell Tories: “Step down and resign”
Hundreds of local residents, with supporters and campaigners, lobbied Kensington and Chelsea council on 19 July
Hundreds of people attended the vigil for Grenfell, in west London to mark four weeks on from the terrible fire
Tenants’ meeting reveals huge anger
“Housing policy only benefits property developers and landlords”
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Corbyn visits Southampton on marginal seat tour
Huddersfield A&E closure referred to Jeremy Hunt
On 21 July, the greater Huddersfield and Calderdale Joint Health Scrutiny Committee (JHSC) referred the decision close the A&E department at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and to downgrade the hospital to the health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
From Militant to the Socialist Party – what you thought
On 4 July Birmingham South East Socialist Party branch discussed the new book From Militant to the Socialist Party by Peter Taaffe.
Socialist sales at Salford station
Street cleaners support the Birmingham bin strike
As part of our Saturday stall campaigning on 22 July, Socialist Party members in Birmingham gave out leaflets to raise support for striking Birmingham refuse workers.
‘Freedom riders’ lobby against violent policing
Pensioners and disabled people from South Yorkshire Freedom Riders are to travel by coach to York on 31 July to lobby a police misconduct hearing
Council meeting abandoned after undercover policing protest
The mayor of Peterborough postponed a council meeting due to protests in the public gallery against Tory councillor Andy Coles
Education cuts forced back in Hackney
Southampton councillors faced with angry anti-cuts campaigners
Southampton city councillors faced a lot of angry people on 19 July at their full council meeting
Plans to bring A-levels back to Knowsley abandoned
Education chiefs have abandoned plans to bring back A-level provision into the borough of Knowsley, Liverpool