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10 March 2021
Tories keep bailing out bosses, while piling pain on workers and public services
Reading the headlines about Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak's budget, some working-class people may have let out a small sigh of relief that at least the furlough scheme and the £20 increase in Universal Credit are continuing for a few more months
3 February 2021
Save our square: we need social housing and public services
Waltham Forest Labour council in East London approved plans to build a block of unaffordable, private housing on Walthamstow town square
20 January 2021
May elections: Tories and Labour's Khan both vying to slash public services
Transport investment has been on the basis of vanity projects and expensive outsourcing
2 December 2020
"Devolution is a disaster" were the reported words of Boris Johnson, referring to the Scottish government and "Tony Blair's biggest mistake".
22 July 2020
Tories using pandemic to privatise NHS more
Another £3 billion for the NHS to prepare for the coming winter, said the Tory government. NHS England had actually said it needed £10 billion.
31 March 2020
More than ever, we need accountable union leaders
The PCS union's national elections have been suspended
16 March 2020
Coronavirus - a workers charter 2020
Coronavirus reveals the capitalist system in crisis
Workers mustn’t pay the price
Party document 16 March 2020
8 January 2020
Ignore the hype - austerity goes on: organise to resist
It's not just the Socialist that is challenging Johnson's claims that he will end austerity and grow the economy. According to the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, winning the election was "the easy bit."
13 December 2019
Stand firm for socialist policies to stop Tory attacks
* Trade unions must organise and plan to mobilise workers and young people to defend the NHS, public services, the environment, benefits and workers' rights.
* Blame the Blairites. Kick out the pro-capitalist saboteurs. Refound Labour as a mass democratic workers' party with socialist policies.
Join the fightback! Join the Socialist Party!
11 September 2019
Unions must fight to make bus drivers and passengers safe
A major report has at last been published, following concerns over driver fatigue on London's buses. High levels of deaths and injuries involving buses have been recorded.
3 July 2019
Even social-care bosses say cuts have gone too far
Jeremy Hunt, in a masterful understatement, said: "I think, having been responsible for health and social care, that some of the cuts in social care did go too far."
15 May 2019
Birmingham home care strikers close to victory!
Just as we go to press, Birmingham Socialist Party members have learnt that the city's home care workers could be on the verge of claiming victory in their 20-month-long dispute against Birmingham Council.
3 April 2019
PCS elections: Support socialist candidates
National elections in the PCS civil servants' union start on 16 April and finish 9 May. They are for the national executive committee (NEC), which is elected annually, and the assistant general secretary (AGS) position - elected for a five-year term
3 April 2019
Probation privatisation failure
"Irredeemably flawed" is the verdict of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation, five years on from the break-up and part-privatisation of the service.
13 March 2019
Anger after violent youth deaths - Communities need public services not cuts
So far this year, ten teenagers have already lost their lives in London as a result of knife crime. In response to these tragedies, people are rightly demanding action to keep communities safe.
12 December 2018
Cuts and NHS crisis result in 'excess' elderly deaths
The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal that there were 50,100 'excess deaths' in England and Wales in the winter of 2017-18, the highest number since the mid-1970s.
12 December 2018
Shares in Interserve - one of the UK's largest private providers of public services - have collapsed after it announced it has £500 million worth of debts.
28 November 2018
End "poverty, ill health and despair":a benefits adviser speaks out against the cuts
I have worked, since leaving college - 22 years - solely in benefits. I have witnessed the systematic destruction of a support system meant to help those who need it most, creating a widespread situation
7 November 2018
Back Chris Baugh and Marion Lloyd for a fighting, democratic, lay-led union
This month votes take place to decide the PCS Left Unity candidates for the union's 2019 elections.
7 November 2018
Tories out - we need socialism!
We need socialism. That will be the central case presented on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th November at Socialism 2018 - a weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party.
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