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Socialist Party news and analysis
Cap rents not benefits: On 1 April David Cameron’s government of the rich will unveil their vicious ‘bedroom tax’. On the same day
the Con-Dems are cutting millionaires’ taxes yet again, saving them over £100,000 a year!
Cap rents not benefits – mansions and tower blocks – millionaires taxes get cut, bedroom tax imposed
TUC must name the day for 24-hour strike
PCS calls national strike on Budget Day
Socialist Party congress 2013, photo Senan
Forbes Rich List exposes obscene inequality
The idea of bankers’ bonuses is supposedly that they encourage hard work, which can only be good for the economy. We have to reward them or we couldn’t guarantee that they’ll behave responsibly…
Socialist Party feature
The ‘Slutwalk’ protests have been an ‘in your face’ challenge to the reactionary idea that how women dress and behave can ‘invite’ rape, writes Eleanor Donne in this International Women’s Day feature
London slutwalk June 2011, photo Sarah Wrack
International socialist news and analysis
Hugo Chavez dies but the struggle continues
Redouble efforts to fight for socialism – revolutionary and democratic: Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez on Tuesday 5 March, writes Tony Saunois, CWI secretary.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in the UK , photo Paul Mattsson
Italy: Voters reject austerity
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Stop cuts and privatisation, to save our NHS!
I read with anger, on Thursday 28 February, that another nail is being driven into Stafford Hospital’s coffin with administrators being brought in to oversee its day-to-day running, writes Josie Shelley, Stafford Socialist Party.
Saturday 24 November, defying cold driving rain, up to 10,000 residents and staff marched to defend Lewisham Accident and Emergency (A&E) and linked arms around it., photo Socialist Party
Eastleigh: growing revulsion at main parties
But anti-cuts alternative still needs to be built: Underlining the deep economic crisis austerity has brought in cuts to jobs, benefits and living standards, the Eastleigh byelection has left Tory ringmaster Cameron with his big tent in tatters
The Eastleigh by-election TUSC rally featured Daz Proctor, Dave Nellist and Keith Morrell, a rebel Southampton councillor who voted against cuts, photo John Gillman
Anti-cuts protester arrested for using right to free speech
Hull, Warrington, Bristol and Bradford
Socialist Party workplace news
Security workers on London Overground strike against ‘slave conditions’
Demanding decent pay and working conditions and a proper contract, Travel Safe Officers are taking action
Assistant general secretary Steve Hedley joins the RMT security and safety staff on strike against bullying and harassment and an attempt to impose workplace changes without agreement 25th February 2013 , photo P Mitchell
Socialist Party review
TV review: Britain on Benefits
I assumed the Channel 4 documentary – Britain on Benefits – would be peddling the same old government lies to mask its failures on unemployment, writes Ian Pattison.
Britain on Benefits: Channel 4 Dispatches – a refreshing challenge to the government’s cuts to welfare and disabled people
