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Socialist Party news and analysis
While people struggling to survive on low incomes are being hammered by pay cuts, bedroom tax, cuts in council tax support and other benefits, George Osborne recently slashed the top rate of income tax for himself and his millionaire chums
Hull protest against the Bedroom Tax , photo by Lash
NHS WARNING! Privatisation puts patients at risk
Save our local hospital services (SOLHS) demonstration, held on Saturday 20 April 2013 in Dewsbury. , photo Dawn Wheelhouse
NUT protest outside the Department of Education by teachers and parents opposed to the GCSE regrading in August 2012, photo Neil Cafferky
Bee, photo by USDA Photo by Jack Dykinga
One in five borrow to buy food
Food banks and fighting austerity
Socialist Party election analysis
Capitalist parties rejected: Time for a new mass workers’ party
The results of the county council elections on 2 May marked a new low for all three major parties. For the first time ever not one of them got 30% or more of the vote; another illustration of the hollowing out of their base of support
TUSC protest outside Camden town hall, March 2013, photo Neil Cafferky
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Salford – two-faced attack on mental health
Salford council still aims to ‘reorganise’ mental health services, despite acknowledging the “strong opposition” of service users…
Manchester mental health workers on strike, photo Christian Bunke
Defend Liverpool’s jobs and services – then and now
Liverpool 47 rally, 27.4.13 on 30th Anniversary: Left to right: Len McCluskie,Tony Benn, Paul Astbury, Tony Mulhearn and Dave Walsh, photo Harry Smith
Socialist Party workplace news
If you attended this year’s shopworkers’ union Usdaw annual delegate meeting (ADM) you would have been forgiven for thinking you’d walked into a Labour rally
Trade unions recommend more cuts in Neath/Port Talbot
CWU supports 24-hour general strike
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) conference on 21 and 22 April was held against the backdrop of the constant threat of wholesale postal privatisation and unprecedented attacks, union busting and sackings of CWU members across Royal Mail, BT and the communications industry
International socialist news and analysis
Portugal: Government in disarray… Left must seize the opportunity
The situation in Portugal is explosive. The decision of the Constitutional Court (CC) to declare four measures of the state budget illegal, amounting to a value of €1.3 billion, only confirmed what many had already said …
The Palestinian struggle – How can a state be realised?
As Israeli governments have progressively increased the number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, eating into the Palestinian territories, more and more people are questioning whether a viable Palestinian state next to Israel is now possible
May Day – fighting capitalist oppression internationally
CWI members, often in difficult circumstances, organised and participated in May Day events around the world. Here are a few short reports..
Greece: Challenging the Golden Dawn
In the elections of June 2012, the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn (GD) got 7% of the votes and entered the Greek parliament for the first time, with 18 MPs