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Fight the bedroom tax
Axe the killer tax: End the bedroom tax now
The death of Stephanie Bottrill, who couldn’t afford the bedroom tax, is a tragedy made in Westminster by a government that wants to make working class people pay for the economic crisis
On the march in Bootle against the Bedroom Tax, May 2013, photo Socialist Party
Bedroom tax non-implementation
Only mass action can defeat it: Some disabled workers have raised the idea of urging civil servants and local authority workers to refuse to participate in administering these new laws
Axe the killer tax – end the bedroom tax now, photo Socialist Party
Socialist Party news and analysis
We’ve been hearing this rubbish for years – British workers are lazy – and now Eton-educated Tory London mayor Boris ‘the bankers’ friend’ Johnson has stepped in, accusing British workers of sloth
Youth Fight for Jobs Workfare protest Feb 2012, photo Senan
Trade union-led national action on NHS needed now: The chair of the NHS regulator has warned that pressure on A&E units is “out of control… [and] totally unsustainable”
Unison staff at Pinderfields hospital strike, photo Iain Dalton
Fat cat tax-dodging: 200 lorry loads of lolly!
Con-Dems benefit fact fraud – tax, avoided, evaded and uncollected, photo Socialist Party
A survey carried out by the TUC earlier this year revealed that people believe, on average, that 27% of the welfare budget is claimed fraudulently, writes Ben Golightly.
International socialist news and analysis
Capitalist crisis: ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’: On 4 April the new governor of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, took the world of finance completely by surprise when he launched an unprecedented stimulus package cash injection
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
TUSC builds support in Leicester byelection
After more than a month’s dedicated campaigning for TUSC, the Abbey ward byelection in Leicester was held on 9 May, writes Tessa Warrington, Leicester Abbey ward byelection TUSC candidate.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
Swansea’s food bank for students
British government supports murderous Sri Lankan regime
Socialist Party meeting against cuts
Socialist Party workplace news
Gloves off in Mid Yorks hospital battle
As the government continues to do all it can to dismantle and privatise the NHS, workers’ pay and conditions are under constant threat, writes Adrian O’Malley
Unison staff at Pinderfields hospital strike, photo Iain Dalton
Brighton bin workers fight pay cuts – this time from the Greens
Widespread support for the Brighton bin workers shown on some bins in the area, photo Support Brighton Council workers Facebook page
Wales TUC: no fight against austerity
Unison leader ‘gets it wrong’ over action on pay
Unison health workers in Mid Yorks on strike, photo by Iain Dalton
Campaigning works – Action gets results: The re-election of the Democracy Alliance national executive committee is a real blow to the government’s attempt to break PCS members’ resolve, writes John McInally
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard , photo by Paul Mattsson
Reader’s comment
Letter to the Tories who tell me to ‘work hard and strive’
My five brothers and sisters and I worked harder in our first 16 years of life than you have your whole life through, writes Teresa Stuart to the Tory government
Socialist history
When mass action defeated Thatcher’s poll tax
Launching the battle in Scotland: Margaret Thatcher was dubbed the Iron Lady. She wore this description with pride as, like her successors today, she ruthlessly tried to solve British capitalism’s difficulties by launching brutal attacks…
Marching against Thatcher’s Poll Tax, photo Dave Sinclair