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12 January 2022
Energy bosses: 'Jump, cuddle and eat porridge while we raise prices'
Struggling to pay your energy bills? The obvious solutions; a pay rise, decent pensions and benefits, bringing energy back into public ownership...
27 October 2021
Ably showing inadequacy, red tape and inhumanity of capitalism: This ten-part dramatisation is based on Stephanie Land's 2019 memoir, 'Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive'
27 October 2021
Carlisle says make the richest pay, not the poorest!
Carlisle Socialist Party held a protest on 16 October against cuts in living standards. With the retail price index already at 4.8% and expected to rise to 6%, this year's meagre wage rises are turning
20 October 2021
Unite and fight for 30,000 permanent DWP jobs
During the pandemic, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was forced to launch emergency recruitment of more than 13,000 additional staff
22 September 2021
Tory cuts to UC: we need a union fightback
From 6 October Universal Credit will be cut by £20 per week
15 September 2021
The government doesn't seem to want to budge on removing the £1,000 a year uplift
11 August 2021
You need a union when the time comes to fight
From the shopfloor: I recently left my job for another, and my previous employer wanted me to pay back full training costs
21 April 2021
Long Covid: Fight for jobs, benefits and services
Illness and disability lasting more than three months after Covid affects almost 700,000 people in Britain
3 March 2021
A fighting programme for women's rights and socialism
Women have been especially hit by the economic and social consequences of the pandemic.
27 January 2021
Poverty wages: When workers can't afford to self-isolate
The Tories are now floating the idea that maybe if they paid £500 to desperate workers in the gig economy, they might be inclined to self-isolate for two weeks if they contract Covid
20 January 2021
Books that inspired me: The Road to Wigan Pier
In early 1936, a then unknown George Orwell was commissioned by the publisher Victor Gollancz to travel to the north of England to research 'the conditions of the working class'
20 January 2021
Make the super-rich pay, not the poorest
In the last week the real number of deaths from Covid has gone over 100,000, and the UK has recorded the highest per capita death toll in the world
20 January 2021
Bosses profit out of 'starvation' food parcels
Private companies were exposed earning £30 for 'starvation' food parcels - for families entitled to free school meals - that contained just north of a fiver's worth of ingredients
20 January 2021
Life in lockdown - being home from school when you're poor is hard
At the beginning of the first lockdown, in my house, we had one computer for three students and a parent working from home. Myself and my siblings receive pupil premium and free school meals.
16 December 2020
No surprise, poverty is rising
A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that 2.4 million, including half a million children, experienced "destitution" in 2019 - before coronavirus reached the UK
2 December 2020
What will the spending review mean for me?
Five Socialist Party members respond to the spending review, and what it means for youth, pensioners, schools, councils and those out of work.
11 November 2020
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28 October 2020
Don't let Tories starve our kids
Big business got billions - Fight for what we need:
30 September 2020
Job Support Scheme - too little, too late
I was working with an agency. I started in April. I was doing about 30 hours a week with them, so regular work. As soon as Covid hit, I was let go with immediate effect.
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