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25 October 2017
Anti-Brexit hedge fund manager lauded while quarter of EU population at risk of poverty. Meditating MP charges us for his baths while voting to fine council tenants for spare rooms.
18 October 2017
Hundreds turn out for rally aimed at removing west Wales Tory MP
Haverfordwest is a small market town in south west Wales and in the marginal Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency of Tory MP and former secretary of state for Wales Stephen Crabb. On 14 October, the town centre was packed with around 300 people attending an anti-austerity rally
17 May 2017
Tories out! Corbyn can win with socialist policies
Build a new workers' party. take the wealth off the 1%: An overview of Jeremy Corbyn's manifesto.
8 March 2017
Why I joined: "I am a Labour Party member and I recently decided to join the Socialist Party"
I joined the Labour Party as a school leaver in 1981 but by the mid-80s I left, completely disillusioned, and became politically inactive. Then, during the 2016 Labour leadership election, I felt enthused by Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity policies and the possibility that at last the Labour Party had a chance of defeating the Tories and their vicious cuts.
16 November 2016
Court win against bedroom tax not enough
Top judges have ruled against part of the Tories' hated 'bedroom tax' benefit cap.
2 November 2016
We are all Daniel Blake: no more deaths from benefit cuts
Thousands of people have died since the implementation of 'work capability assessments'. This is what the new Ken Loach film 'I, Daniel Blake' is all about. Enough is enough with this inhumane system!
28 September 2016
Washdyke v Shoreline: the housing battle in Immingham
More than 60 residents from the Washdyke flats estate made the short journey to the Immingham resource centre to voice their objection to the demolition of their homes by Shoreline, the housing association that North-East Lincolnshire Labour council has outsourced social housing to.
10 August 2016
Axe the Housing Act: 'We can't pay, we'll organise and we'll stay'
The housing crisis continues to deepen under this rotten Tory government. Many renters are now shelling out over half their net income to private landlords. But despite the acute shortage of affordable housing, Teresa May's ministers are pursuing a vicious campaign against social housing tenants. This is on top of the Tories' vindictive 'bedroom tax'.
13 July 2016
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including facts and figures about new PM Theresa May and the M&S pay cut.
13 July 2016
Child poverty rises by 200,000 in a year
In the space of just one year, 2014 to 2015, the number of children living in poverty in the UK has risen by a staggering 200,000. This brings the total number to 3.9 million, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
8 June 2016
Millionaire and former government minister Iain Duncan Smith claimed that cutting welfare payments and capping benefits would 'incentivise' unemployed people to find work - the Tory equivalent of a cattle prod
25 May 2016
Letters to the editors: EU, Paul Mason and nukes, Leicester FC, board game, Michelle Bridge 1973-2016.
9 March 2016
We need socialist policies to end the housing crisis
Workers in the UK are suffering a severe housing crisis that is only set to get worse. A landlord-friendly Tory government is turning this crisis into a disaster for millions of households.
9 February 2016
Disabled woman harassed for bedroom tax
A press release from Waltham Forest Trade Union Council
Protesting about a bedroom tax case
3 February 2016
Bedroom Tax ruling: The fight to scrap it must continue
Words alone won't get rid of the bedroom tax. "I'm registered disabled - will I still have to pay bedroom tax?... Is the bedroom tax illegal, now?"... "Has the bedroom tax been stopped?", writes Cathy Meadows, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Scrap the Bedroom Tax, Defend Council Tax Benefits campaign.
27 January 2016
Obituary: Dean Meehan 1962-2016
Socialist Party members were shocked to learn of the death of RMT member and TUSC candidate Dean Meehan at the age of 53.
18 November 2015
The end of social housing? How can we solve the housing crisis?
The cat is out of the bag. As the Financial Times reported: "Chancellor George Osborne is considering a radical multibillion-pound plan to privatise the government's stake in housing associations".
7 October 2015
The housing crisis - a crisis of the profit system
The ever-dwindling numbers of affordable homes to buy or rent is behind the deepening housing crisis in the UK.
2 September 2015
Two million bailiff calls as councils brutalise poor
In the past year, councils in England and Wales have sent bailiffs in to collect debts over two million times.
5 August 2015
Rent hikes make housing unaffordable
Between June 2014 and 2015, average private rents in Britain increased by 2.5%, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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