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Socialist Party NHS news and analysis
The medical director of NHS England, Bruce Keogh, has said the NHS should be run like Dixons or PC World with a “more for less” mentality – he must mean more profits, less healthcare, poor service and closures (all Dixons shops closed in 2006!)
Nurses protest on the 20 October 2012 TUC demo , photo Senan
National Health Service in crisis!
Privatisation and cuts threaten Barts Health Trust, which includes Whipps Cross, Barts, Newham and the Royal London hospitals, forming Britain’s biggest NHS hospital trust.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Miliband’s ‘Clause Four moment’
Ed Miliband’s decision to rush through the end of trade union bloc affiliation to the Labour Party at a special conference next spring has all the symbolism of Tony Blair’s ‘Clause Four moment’ in 1995
Blue Labour
Following the scandalous referral from the Labour Party, the police will not be investigating any allegations surrounding the recruitment of Labour Party members in the Falkirk constituency or the selection process for a Labour candidate
Benefits shock: London family on state handouts avoids the benefit cap and bedroom tax
Climate change
Climate change accelerates… but capitalism sets the agenda
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the main cause of global warming, has reached a critical level, writes Pete Dickenson.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the USA graph of Carbon Dioxide concentrations
International socialist news and analysis
The capitalist world in turmoil
“We stand on the eve of convulsive events, the greatest in world history, of which the mighty movements in these countries are the precursor.”
Anti-capitalist protest outside St Pauls in London following the Wall Street protests – We are the 99% , photo Paul Mattsson
Tunisia: Political assassination provokes renewed workers’ struggles
The assassination of Mohamed Brahmi, MP for El Shaab (People’s Movement part of the Popular Front opposition), has triggered a new mass movement of workers and youth in Tunisia
Neither the military nor Morsi… for a workers’ government
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
The Greater Manchester Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation hit the ground running on 20 July at an energetic rally attended by anti-cuts groups from across the city
Newcastle anti-bedroom tax demo, photo Paul Phillips
Lambeth byelection: TUSC beats Ukip and Tories
Atos misery: scrap work capability assessments!
The government recently announced that they will be bringing more private companies in to do work capability assessments alongside hated current provider Atos.
Tamil Solidarity links with RMT
Over 130 copies of the Socialist were sold at the 2013 Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorset when petitioning for the TUC to call a 24-hour general strike against austerity
The fortnightly schedule allows members of the editorial staff to attend the CWI Summer School and also take some holiday
Socialist Party workplace news
Strike to stop Royal Mail sell-off
CWU members in Royal Mail are meeting on 31 July and 1 August to discuss defending the service against privatisation, writes Gary Clark, Assistant branch secretary, Scotland No.2 branch CWU.
Communication Workers Union, CWU, lobby of parliament over the privatisation of Royal Mail postal services Feb 09, photo Paul Mattsson
Two weeks of strike action by Churchill cleaners
One Housing support workers – more determined than ever!
Fees for going to an Employment Tribunal have just been introduced. It will now cost £160 for relatively minor cases, or £250 for issues like unfair dismissal, to lodge a claim and a further charge of up to £950 if the case goes ahead.
Socialist Party review
Book review: Karl Marx – How to change the world
In this book Jonathan Sperber says he aims to place the great revolutionary thinker and activist firmly in his times
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber