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Socialist Party news and analysis
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Olympic Britain – we’re priced out: Make the super-rich pay for the crisis – not the 99%!…
The Youth Fight for Jobs Austerity Games held in Hackney Marshes 24 July 2012 highlighted the plight of young people, photo Paul Mattsson
Outsourcing fails again. For publicly owned and run services!
The Olympics G4S security debacle has further increased public opposition to privatisation. But for G4S at present, its failure to deliver on its contract will merely dent its massive profits
G4S
£13 trillion hidden from tax by super-rich
Trust me, I’m a banker – Youth Fight for Jobs Austerity Games, July 2012, photo Paul Mattsson
Not-guilty verdict in Ian Tomlinson case
International socialist news and analysis
Kazakhstan – Workers struggle against bloody, corrupt regime
Recently 400 socialists from across Europe and all around the world met in Belgium at the Summer School of the CWI…
Kazakhstan embassy protest to free Bolat Atabayev, photo Dave Carr
Spain’s austerity government is facing revolt from below
Workers’ organisations must build for a 48-hour general strike: Like the wildfires that are ripping across the mountains of Catalonia, ‘Spanic’ is spreading around the world’s financial markets, writes Hannah Sell
Miners light up Madrid and show the way to struggle!
Socialist history
1972: dockers face down the Tory government
“Britain came within inches of a general strike”: “Arise Ye Workers” read the banner as five London dockers were carried shoulder high from Pentonville Prison in London, writes Roger Thomas.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Austerity Games highlights plight of young people
As the world’s eyes focus on the Olympics, young people from across the country arrived on Hackney Marshes, east London, to compete in the alternative Austerity Games.
Save our jobs: We need a 24-hour general strike
Lobby the TUC in Brighton on 9 September: Since I finished my training as a social worker in Sheffield I have been out of work. But I am not alone, 40% of newly qualified social workers are unemployed
Commercialism vs politics: Newcastle Pride took place on Saturday 21 July. It soon became clear that the march was going to be bigger than last year.
Pre-emptive arrests: “straight out of 1984”
Stop NHS cuts & privatisation
Kick private profiteers out of the NHS
Exposed – the real threat of privatisation: A leaked letter to doctors from a Coventry hospital chief executive has exposed the reality of allowing the private sector into the NHS
Virgin vultures swoop on vulnerable people’s services
Richard Branson’s Virgin multinational won the bid to deliver NHS and social care services to young people in Devon
Leicester: Not one cut in the NHS
“My daughter wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the heart unit at Glenfield Hospital,” Leicester Socialist Party members were told while campaigning against the closure of the local children’s heart unit
Kirkby campaigners get support
Olympic protest as South London Healthcare trust forced into administration
Socialist Party workplace news
Olympic victory for London bus workers
London bus workers have voted to accept the Olympics bonus deal offered by all companies operating Transport for London routes
Solidarity with PCS members fighting to defend services
RMT demo in Portsmouth against Condor’s ‘sweatships’
Socialist Party review
TV review: “What have the Olympics done for me?”
BBC Three’s Free Speech series recently held a discussion on the Olympic Games. The main topic was on the question “what have the Olympics done for me?”, writes Paul Callanan, Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser.
Socialist Party appeal & news