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Socialist Party news and analysis
Paralympics, Atos scandal, Remploy closures… Con-Dems win gold for hypocrisy!
Millions are watching the 2012 Paralympics. The Games aim to inspire young disabled people to take up sport and compete at the highest level
London Olympics opening ceremony, photo Alison Hill
Build for a 24-hour general strike!
Across the country millions of people are starting to suffer the consequences of Austerity Britain. Over two and a half million are unemployed, with millions only able to get part time work
26 March TUC demonstration , photo Paul Mattsson
NUT protest outside the Department of Education by teachers and parents opposed to the GCSE regrading in August 2012, photo Neil Cafferky
Crisis services handed over to charity food banks
Once again The Guardian repeats the line that ‘councils will no longer be able to’ fund another vital service, this time to maintain emergency crisis loans
One person’s tragedy…: In issue 730 of the Socialist, Iain Dalton reported on the world food crisis. But evidently, crops failing and the resulting unaffordable food prices and potential starvation isn’t such a tragedy for everyone
Socialist Party workplace news
Building workers fight pay cut threat
Dozens gathered at Cardiff’s Royal Infirmary on 24 August to support electricians taking action against “Besna 2″…
Building workers fight pay cut: at Cardiff’s Royal Infirmary 24 August, fighting Besna 2, led by electrician and TUSC candidate Andrew Wilkes, photo Sarah Mayo
Sparks protest at London Crown House site
Socialist Party members and National Shop Steward Network (NSSN) supporters gave support to a building workers’ protest outside the Crown House site. Crown House want to tear up the national agreement in order to cut wages, photo Rob Williams
Local government pension scheme
How did we end up worse off?: All three local authority trade unions have now accepted the new-look pension scheme – LGPS 2014, with ballots in GMB, Unite and Unison all returning large majorities in favour of accepting, writes a Coventry council worker.
Unison placard – we won’t pay for the financial crisis on 30 November 2011 strike, photo Paul Mattsson
Sheffield recycling workers to resume strike action
Sheffield recycling workers on indefinite strike action, photo Alistair Tice
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Lobby the TUC for a 24-hour general strike
Time to rise up!: Britain’s self-appointed ‘elite’ has declared war on the ordinary people of this country. From self-serving politicians seeking office for their own gain, to greedy bankers wrecking homes, jobs and lives
26 March 2011 TUC demonstration against the government’s austerity programme, photo Suzanne Beishon
Racists Out! Youth against Racism in Europe marches for jobs and homes not racism, photo Paul Mattsson
East Midlands: Save our ambulance service
NHS: Unions must defend national pay bargaining
Poole Hospital NHS Trust is one of the 20 trusts in the South West that have signed up to the South West Pay, Terms and Conditions Consortium, the real purpose of which is to reduce the wage bill
TUSC councillor rejects Walsall cuts ‘consultation’
Prisons
Prison work – £3 a day is exploitation for profit
Dozens of inmates at Prescoed prison in Monmouthshire are being bussed out to a call centre to work for just £3 a day. PJ McParlin gives the POA’s response
Prison Officers Association National Chairman PJ McParlin addresses National Shop Stewards Network conference, 9 June 2012, photo Suzanne Beishon
Women’s prisons – Con-Dems’ ‘reforms’ mean cuts and privatisation
International socialist news and analysis
Norway: Mass murderer Anders Breivik gets life sentence
Far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was found guilty of mass murders which he committed on 22 July 2011 in Oslo and at a youth camp of the governing Labour Party on the small island of Utøya
Kazakhstan: Human rights campaigner Vadim Kuramshin freed
Campaign Kazakhstan protest in London 26 July 2012 against UK business links with the Kazakhstan regime, photo Dave Carr
Reviews and comments
Leon Trotsky: A revolutionary’s life
Book review: The 72nd anniversary of the assassination of the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was commemorated even within Britain’s capitalist press…
Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931
Fight council tax benefit cuts
The ‘madness’ of building homes
On 28 August, the Guardian carried a Polly Toynbee article about the role of “great speeches” at Tory, Labour and Lib Dem conferences
Socialist Party news
Notting Hill carnival-goers support Lonmin miners
Socialist Party members joined thousands of Londoners at the Notting Hill carnival on Bank Holiday Monday, campaigning for solidarity with South African Lonmin mineworkers, writes Neil Cafferky.
