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27 March 2020
The self-employed need 100% of their income, and now!
The government has relented to pressure by bringing in a support scheme for the self-employed
27 March 2020
London Socialist Party: Friday Fightback - protest clap and noise!
12 noon every Friday till all workers are protected from Covid-19. In front of wherever you are
25 March 2020
Coronavirus crisis: Tests, full pay and funding - for all now
The coronavirus crisis has exposed the complete inability of the capitalist market economy, based on profit and competition, to meet the needs of working-class people.
25 March 2020
Southampton: University workers win full pay for casual staff
All three campus trade unions wrote to the vice-chancellor
25 March 2020
Bosses not workers should pay for JCB shutdown
This year is the 75th anniversary of the founding of JCB. The year started with statements that the order books were the fullest for certain JCB products since their inception.
25 March 2020
"It's like the Mary Celeste in here" says first worker going in. But I still sell five copies of the Socialist. Less than usual, but not bad considering more than half the staff are now working from home.
25 March 2020
Social care: "Not good enough by miles"
Boris Johnson has said that non-urgent operations will be cancelled, and people already in hospital sent home, to free up 30,000 general and acute beds in the NHS to accommodate coronavirus patients. According to Johnson, they will be released into the care of "community health providers".
23 March 2020
Johnson and Sunak responded to public anger and agreed to pay 80% of the wages of workers who are laid off because of the coronavirus. This will be welcomed by millions, but for workers already struggling to pay the bills, 80% of wages will not be enough to live on.
20 March 2020
Bexley binworkers' strike wins sick pay from day one
Binworkers working for Serco at Tory-run Bexley council have won a victory
18 March 2020
East London bin workers strike to get back unpaid holiday pay
Workers are furious because 150 are owed substantial arrears
18 March 2020
Workers at Lewisham coronavirus hospital walk out after not being paid
"Infected patients are now being admitted into the hospital, but the cleaners have downed tools because they haven't been paid"
18 March 2020
Coronavirus: workers must not pay the price!
System in crisis: We cannot trust the Tories, or the system they represent, to keep us safe or defend our interests
11 March 2020
Nationalise to save jobs threatened by Covid-19 and downturn
The impact of Covid-19 accelerated the collapse of Flybe
11 March 2020
Fighting to transform the union in my warehouse
Conditions in my workplace have been decaying over the last decade. The cost of surviving, let alone living, has gotten harder.
11 March 2020
For full pay during isolation: for public health as well as workers' wallets
Government forecasts say up to 20% of workers could be off sick or in self-isolation in the UK when coronavirus reaches its peak, writes Josh Asker, Southampton Socialist Party.
11 March 2020
South Korea shows capitalism has money to respond to coronavirus
Korea has been pretty good. Local councils are giving money to low earners to help with rent. Anyone who needs to get the test and potential treatment receives it free. And if you have to self-quarantine
11 March 2020
Stoke council unions beat pay cuts - now let's stop all cuts
Protests and the threat of strike action by council worker unions - GMB, Unite and Unison - have forced Stoke-on-Trent city council to scrap their plans to cut some workers' wages by up to £5,000 a year, writes Andy Bentley, Stoke Socialist Party.
11 March 2020
Argos workers in Sainsbury's stores threatened with losing collective bargaining
Argos has announced the transfer of its staff working in Sainsbury's shops to Sainsbury's itself, writes Iain Dalton, Usdaw Broad Left chair.
11 March 2020
Homerton Hospital workers fight for sick pay
Staff at Homerton Hospital, east London, celebrated when they heard the news that private contractor ISS had agreed to pay workers their usual pay if they are forced to self-isolate to help stop the spread of coronavirus, writes Brian Debus, Hackney Socialist Party and Hackney Trade Union Council.
4 March 2020
A legacy of women workers and the class struggle
International Women's Day, with its history of being rooted in struggle, has, in recent years, been diminished. Big business increasingly uses it as a cynical opportunity to give the illusion of being progressive and inclusive. Sinead Daly looks at the real history of International Working Women's Day and the socialist ideas it inspires today.
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