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Socialist Party news and analysis
March and strike against austerity
Lobby the TUC to call a general strike: The cracks in the Coalition are becoming open splits. This is a weak government that can be defeated. However, left to its own devices, it will stagger on, unleashing the remaining 85% of the biggest austerity programme for 90 years.
Half-million strong TUC demo, central London, 26 March 2011, against the government’s cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
Miliband and Labour – no real alternative to Con-Dems
Ed Miliband became the first Labour leader since Neil Kinnock in 1989 to speak at the Durham Miners’ Gala… Does this represent a break with the past? Has Ed become red?
Tories stick the boot in on care funding
The Con-Dem government white paper on adult social care funding in England represents a further blow to elderly and disabled people requiring financial support
Oppose the closure of the Independent Living Fund
Witch-hunting Unison leadership “shabby” declares judge
In a humiliating response to Unison’s attempts to bully four witch-hunted Socialist Party members out of defending ourselves in court due to lack of money, Lord Justice Elias has called Unison “shabby”, writes Glenn Kelly.
Defend the Four: protest against Unison witchhunt, 2009, photo Suzanne Beishon
Wales NHS – Reject the Case for Cuts report
The Welsh government-commissioned report into NHS services in Wales is becoming increasingly discredited
Socialist Party workplace news
Support striking Remploy workers!
Claps and cheers greet Remploy marchers in Sheffield 20 April 2012, photo Sheffield Socialist Party
RMT cleaners Trans-Pennine Express strike
Fighting against exploitation of seafarers and port workers
2012 London Olympics
Olympics: The greatest sporting, and money-making, show on earth
World records will not be the only things broken at this year’s Olympic and Paralympic games. Promises for a lasting legacy – affordable housing, decent jobs, increased sports participation, and the rest – are being broken, too.
TUSC campaigning at the Olympic Park during the London Assembly elections 2012, photo London Socialist Party
Olympics G4S scandal shows failure of privatisation
Westfield Stratford: Olympic Park security measures in operation
Bosses bank in on corporate olympics – we get austerity!
Education
Teachers fight school privatisation
Top-up fees: £50,000 debt leads to to 50,000 less students
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Southampton: two Labour councillors vote against Labour council cuts
In the 3 May elections, the Tory council in Southampton suffered a heavy defeat. This followed months of strikes and mass demonstrations by council workers with the backing of the local community.
Bristol protests counter racist EDL
Anti-racists protest against the EDL marching in Bristol, photo by Bristol SP
Tolpuddle festival shows fightback needed today
Reg Fitch was one of the Brighton Fitches – a family with a long, proud socialist tradition. His twin brother was the late Rod Fitch, a Militant supporter who stood as a Labour parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown in 1983.
International socialist news and analysis
Brazil: ‘Miracle’ economy slows
Brazil, as part of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), has in recent years been seen as a ‘hope’ for the global economy, writes Marcus Kollbrunner, Liberdade Socialismo e Revolução (CWI, Brazil).
PSOL on demo in Brazil
Solidarity picket of Turkish Airlines
Reviews and comments
Review: BBC TV documentary “When I get older”
Acute poverty and loneliness face many pensioners in Britain. This programme asked four pensionable age ‘celebrities’ to stay with four `ordinary` pensioners in their homes
BBC Documentary: When I Get Older: My time with Ivy, photo: screenshot from BBC
