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Socialist Party news and analysis
End fuel poverty: The bosses of the ‘big six’ energy companies should be in the dock. 31,000 extra people, mostly pensioners, died last winter
Boris – it’s the system, stupid
SNP’s white paper will not deliver decisive change
Yes to an independent socialist Scotland, no to a continuation of capitalist austerity
Not more subsidies for lenders and landlords! All the politicians say we need more housing. But new home ‘completions’ in England fell 8% to 107,910 in the year to September
Health service in crisis: The public health service is facing another severe crisis this winter as the Con-Dems’ and previous Labour governments’ policies continue to wreak havoc in the NHS
International socialist news and analysis
The fight against low pay in the United States
Black Friday and beyond: In the US, low-wage workers, from fastfood to retail, have protested, picketed, and gone on strike multiple times this year to demand higher wages and rights on the job
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Kent: Unions and parents unite against all the cuts
Sixty people gathered outside County Hall in Maidstone on Monday 2 December, in protest against cuts to children’s centres across Kent, writes Dave Semple.
Fracking has come to the Tories’ ‘desolate North’ – and with it the anti-fracking movement, which is beginning to strike roots in Salford, Greater Manchester
Council uses court against Bedroom Tax victims
Support the fightback in Con-Dems’ Dickensian Britain
Socialist Party Christmas appeal: While wage cuts and fuel price rises are the norm for us, we can at least console ourselves that Britain is leading Europe in the number of bankers earning over €1 million
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
London TUSC groups plan for 2014 elections
TUSC groups and committees are meeting all over London to put plans in place for the elections next year
Socialist Party workplace news
Hundreds are planning to march behind the Save Our Services banner on a demonstration on 7 December to save fire stations in Surrey
Npower job cuts must be fought!
Npower have now announced that its call centre in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, will close next June as part of a total of 1,400 workers being thrown on the scrap heap nationally
Universities: second coordinated strike over pay
London University: strike by support staff
Support striking St Mungos workers
Workers at St Mungo’s in Hitchin are staging a seven-day strike, the first strike in the hostel’s history
Civil service union calls for an end to violence in Jobcentres
A PCS union branch in Lincolnshire has appealed for an end to violence in local Jobcentres after a man was arrested following an incident involving a meat cleaver
Socialist Party comments and reviews
Is workfare coming to Morrisons?
The government’s various workfare schemes force jobseekers to work for a company while being paid only their benefits
Seventeen year old Matt, a new member of York Socialist Party, gave a speech on ‘why socialism’ at his school
