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Thatcher’s death
Now let’s bury Thatcher’s legacy
TUC call a 24-hour general strike!: It is a human response to be sad when somebody dies. But many working class people will be celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s death because of the absolutely destructive and long lasting effect she had
Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, as she will always be remembered, photo Alan Hardman
Thatcher: a class warrior for capitalism
Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments wrought on working class communities – that is still being felt today.
Thatcher’s death: readers respond 1
The real tragedy is that while she may be dead herself her ideas are still alive and well in the form of the Con-Dem coalition and New Labour, writes Dave Nellist
Cartoon Alan Hardman
Thatcher death: readers respond 2
I went to get my morning newspaper and also needed a sympathy card for a relative. When I asked Shah, my local shopkeeper, where his sympathy cards were his eyes nearly popped out of his head
Socialist Party news and analysis
Halt the Thatcherite onslaught – TUC must call a 24-hour general strike!
When people try to remember where they were when they heard that Maggie Thatcher had died, their reaction will tell us everything about her legacy
TUC demo 20 October 2012 with placard calling for a 24 hour general strike , photo Senan
Con-Dems’ latest cruel cut: Disability Living Allowance
HBOS scandal is just the tip of the iceberg
Tories and press use Philpott case to attack ‘welfare culture’
An advice worker explains what life on benefits is really like..
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
In local council elections on 2 May 5% of the seats will have a fighting anti-austerity alternative on the ballot paper…
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
Warrington: Suspended for fighting the cuts
Warrington Labour rebel councillor speaks to the Socialist: Kevin Bennett has been indefinitely suspended by the Labour group after he voted against cuts
Kevin Bennett, Warrington Labour rebel councillor , photo by Adam Hemsley
Doncaster: 60 at Mary4Mayor rally
Mary Jackson’s Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) election campaign for Doncaster mayor held a successful launch meeting on 2 April…
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, addresses the Trade Unionists and Socialist Coalition in Doncaster for Mary Jackson, photo A Tice
Greater Manchester: Stop extermination of our NHS
Campaigners from across Greater Manchester gathered at Media:City in Salford on the first day that the government’s pro-privatisation measures against our NHS took effect
Cheltenham marches against A&E cuts
Saturday 6 April saw around 300 people march through the centre of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, against plans to reduce night time staffing at the town’s A&E, photo by Chris Moore
‘Forced out of work, forced out of Spain’
The bedroom tax
Millionaire, mansion-owning Con-Dem ministers have deemed an estimated 660,000 council and Housing Association households that claim housing benefit to be ‘under-occupying’ their homes
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
Bedroom tax: Can’t pay – determined to stay!
International socialist news and analysis
Fears of a nuclear conflict on the Korean peninsula increase
The escalation of fear and tension on the Korean peninsula, and far beyond, is not without justification, writes Clare Doyle
Socialist Party workplace news
Government refuses to talk: PCS members across the civil service followed their budget-day strike on 20 March with half-day strikes on 5 and 8 April…
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard, photo Paul Mattsson
Pickets discuss coordinated strikes
At one o’clock on 5 April, members of the civil servants’ union PCS took a half day’s strike action as part of their campaign against the government’s austerity measures
Fight the attacks on NHS working conditions
Unison NEC elections: Vote for a fighting democratic union
Vote for Socialist Party and United Left candidates.
Elections for Unison’s national executive (NEC) start on 22 April and run until 24 May.
PCS elections: vote Democracy Alliance/Left Unity
Socialist Party review
Hillsborough – never forgotten
This BBC4 programme Hillsborough – Never Forgotten on 3 April was a powerful reminder of events leading up to the recent Independent Panel’s findings on the 1989 Hillsborough catastrophe