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Socialist Party news and analysis
Lobby the TUC to demand date for 24-hour general strike: Corporate tax dodging… pampered MPs scamming expenses… fat cat privatisers creaming a profit out of our NHS, public services and utilities… the 1% elite load up the lolly and laugh all the way to the bank
PCS members on strike 10 May 2012 outside Parliament, photo Paul Mattsson
Historic victory for witch-hunted Unison four
The white flag of surrender is currently flying over Unison HQ. For five and half years the union bureaucracy have sought to justify and defend the witch-hunt against four Unison activists and Socialists
Defend the Four protest lobby against Unison outside Congress House , photo B. Severn
PCC elections: The average turnout in the police commissioner elections was 15%. The previous record low was 24% in the 1999 European elections.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Southampton: Labour’s ‘fair’ council announces £25 million cuts, but workers want action
On 13 November, the Southampton Labour council, elected in May 2012, announced a record £25 million cuts budget for February 2013, writes Southampton Socialist Party.
Photo Paul Mattsson
Hull workers reject ‘austerity lite’
0n 15 November angry and determined workers lobbied Hull city council to demand that Labour councillors keep their election promises
Suffering unworkable benefit assessments
Mandi, from Lewisham in south east London, is in constant pain and has been unable to work for seven years
International socialist news and analysis
Stop Israeli state terror! No more slaughter in Gaza
Men, women and children from one end of the Gaza strip to the other have been subjected to abject terror as bombs hit this narrow piece of land from the air and sea
Gaza Protest November 2012, photo Socialist Party
Europe: 14 November shows workers’ potential power to defeat austerity
Socialist Party features
NHS: Condition critical. Prescription: mass action to end all cuts and privatisation
Every area of the National Health Service faces crisis as the government financial squeeze threatens thousands of job losses and closures of hospital departments…
Admin staff strike, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust, 1st November 2012 , photo by Iain Dalton
Tragic death of Savita Halappanavar
Socialist Party workplace news
Crown workers walk out at three sites
Workers at three factories have walked out in immediate and angry response to an attack by Crown on the pension scheme
Mid Yorkshire: Three-day NHS strike
Over 350 workers in the Mid Yorkshire NHS are facing pay cuts in a mass downbanding exercise. After a one-day strike on 1 November Unison members started a three-day strike on 20 November.
Three-day strike of Mid Yorkshire Unison NHS staff against pay cuts and mass downgrading, photo Iain Dalton
London Uni cleaners fight for basic rights
Stratford: parents support teachers’ action
“I don’t know what democracy is”, was the flippant reply by a deputy head at Stratford Academy in east London when parent Niall Mulholland asked why senior management had refused to meet parents
Waltham Forest: spread the strikes to stop the rot
Socialist Party election analysis
Rotherham TUSC election challenge – No snouts in the trough!
After Rotherham MP, Dennis ‘MacShame’ was caught with his fingers in the till, a byelection has been called for 29 November, writes Alistair Tice.
Rotherham TUSC candidate Ralph Dyson, second left, on the Rawmarsh school picket line, photo Yorkshire Socialist Party
Middlesbrough byelection TUSC candidate John Malcolm says: “As an NHS community nurse I see first-hand the devastation brought about by the Con-Dem government’s policy of cuts and privatisation within all public services but particularly in the NHS…
Building working-class political representation
With a £5,000 deposit required to get on to the ballot paper – but with no candidates’ freepost mailshot available – TUSC did not field any candidates in the Police Commissioner elections held on 15 November, dubbed by the media as Britain’s ‘super Thursday’
