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What we think
Anti-austerity opposition needed to seize on Tories’ weakness
Editorial of the Socialist, issue 964: Many will have been pleased to see some of the policy announcements coming out of Labour Party conference
Socialist Party youth and students
Scrap tuition fees: Tuition fees can be beaten. Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s announcement that he will consider lowering them in the next Tory budget is an indication of his government’s enormous weakness
Freshers week campaigning reports
Sport
Women’s football – Sampson allegations
At the start of the summer women’s football was riding high. In the build up to the European Championships, England, for the first time in a very long time (in men’s or women’s football), were one of the favourites.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Gig economy exploiter Uber loses London licence
Transport unions Unite, RMT and GMB are celebrating a victory against ‘gig economy’ taxi company Uber after forcing London Mayor Sadiq Khan to refuse to renew its operating licence
Travel chaos for Ryanair customers as airline cancels thousands of flights
One in four teenage girls depressed – crisis made worse by cuts
We are more familiar with depression than ever. What was considered uncommon 20 years ago is now increasingly prevalent, particularly among young people, with new studies indicating that one in four girls have depression by age 14
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Bristol: demand for no-cuts budget grows
In a bitter twist to the pantomime tale of Dick Whittington, a poor man who went to London and ended up becoming Lord Mayor, Bristol Labour Mayor Marvin Rees travelled there on 12 September to seek an audience with the Tories and bring back extra money for the city and ended up with… nothing.
Salford: Labour mayor needs to stop all cuts
Ledbury tenants fight for decent homes
Danielle Gregory, Ledbury tenant and leading figure in the Ledbury action group spoke to Southwark Socialist Party activist Bill Mullins.
Hundreds march against Labour council’s development plan
Around 600 people marched through the streets of Haringey, north London, on 23 September to oppose the council’s Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV).
Stop the cuts – save our vital services
“They cut, we bleed – Save Women’s Aid” was chanted outside Doncaster council chamber by approximately 30 trade unionists, socialists and community activists, on 21 September.
Lessons of October new edition out now!
Socialist Party workplace news
Escalate summer strike wave into coordinated action to defeat the pay cap
The demonstration outside the Tory party conference in Manchester on 1 October is the first main mobilisation since the TUC congress in mid-September. At the TUC, unions agreed to launch a campaign of demonstrations and industrial action to break the Tory public sector pay cap. Workers will be hoping that the Manchester protest is the launch pad for such a fight.
Birmingham bin strike: council humiliated in court battle – but war isn’t over yet
Food processing workers vote for action against miserly bosses
Leicester Socialist Party and the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) attended an emergency branch meeting for workers from Tulip, a food processing plant in Coalville. The members present on 24 September voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action due to a series of abuses by their employers.
Usdaw elections announced – fight for a left leadership, vote for Amy Murphy
Usdaw general secretary John Hannett’s retirement, announced at the shop workers’ union’s annual summer school, has been a long time in the offing
Surrey County Council staff on collision course over pay freeze
Surrey County Council employees in public sector union Unison are being balloted over an offer from the local authority which has been described by lead Unison negotiator Paul Couchman as a ‘slap in the face’ for long-standing members of staff.
CWU strike ballot to win ‘Four Pillars’
International socialist news and analysis
Strike against Madrid’s ‘state of emergency’!
Catalan independence referendum: The Spanish state’s minority government, led by the right-wing Partido Popular (People’s Party – PP), and propped up by Psoe (the social-democrats), has ruthlessly enforced its ban on the Catalan government holding a referendum on 1 October on Catalonian independence
German elections: rise of the far right and right-wing government will provoke resistance