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The Socialist issue 794

15 January 2014

Evict the Con-Dems!

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The Socialist issue 794

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Socialist Party news and analysis

spotEvict the Con-Dems!

Scrap the Bedroom Tax NOW: Tory welfare-slashing minister Iain Duncan Smith should resign. The millionaire architect of the hated ‘bedroom tax’, has illegally imposed the tax on tenants not liable to pay it

Hull protest against the Bedroom tax - Debt = Slavery, photo Lash


spotHuge anger at inquest verdict on killing of Mark Duggan

spotPensioners are not economic ‘joy riders’

Austerity: ‘We’re not being feather-bedded’ I am not often driven to put pen to paper but the following headline, “Someone needs to fight the selfish, short-sighted old”, on a recent Guardian article by ex-MP, ex-prisoner Chris Huhne did nothing for my blood pressure

spotGove wages war on history teachers

Education secretary Michael Gove sees the centenary of World War One as a chance to push his call for a school curriculum promoting the glories of the British Empire

spotThem & Us

City bonuses: Finance chiefs in the Square Mile will scoop £10 billion out of a total bonus pay-out of £19 billion

International socialist news and analysis

spotAriel Sharon: a brutal architect of monstrous crimes

The butcher of Sabra and Shatila has died. Ariel Sharon, once known as the “Father of Israeli settlements”, died after eight years in a semi-coma, following a stroke while still prime minister in January 2006

spotSeattle: ’15 Now’ minimum wage campaign launched

Socialist Party workplace news

spotRMT v Johnson: Union prepares to defend London Underground

The RMT London tube workers have voted by 77% in favour of action against the brutal attack on jobs and terms and conditions by London Underground, TfL management and Tory Mayor Boris Johnson hoping to have his ‘miners moment’

Protesting against the proposed London Underground ticket office closures and job cuts, photo Paul Mattsson

Protesting against the proposed London Underground ticket office closures and job cuts, photo Paul Mattsson


spotTeachers need a strategy to win

With the attacks on pay and pensions already largely in place, and attacks on conditions soon to be added, the NUT urgently needs to agree a workable strategy to put to beleaguered teachers

spotThe underbelly of prison privatisation

spotUnison: National anti-cuts battle needed

“Will they even empty the bins?” – so read the headline in our local paper reporting on the cash crisis in Labour-led Wolverhampton council

spotSupport Glasgow care workers fighting attacks

Unison members in Glasgow city council’s residential homes for older people were on strike from 13 January for 48 hours to resist cuts in pay, unacceptable changes to job roles and a move to 12 and a half hour shifts

spotWorkplace news in brief

Socialist Party youth and students

spotOrganising fast food workers

Officials from bakers’ union BFAWU recently held a ‘fast food forum’ with campaigners from groups including Youth Fight for Jobs

spotPupils chase hated Gove around their school

Students at Marling school, Stroud, show visiting Gove their anger, January 2014, photo C Moore


spotMore attacks on further education funding

spotUniversity bosses’ snouts in the trough

Warwick: The vice-chancellor of Warwick University, aptly named Nigel Thrift, has been awarded a pay rise of a whopping £16,000

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spotExploratory drillers told to “Frack Off”

Over 500 trade unionists and environmental campaigners demonstrated against fracking on Barton Moss in Salford

Demonstration against fracking on Barton Moss in Salford, 12.1.14, photo M Kilsby


spot“I’ll be voting for the trade unionists”

spotBuilding the Socialist Party

spotObituary: Jimmy Parry, Liverpool 47 socialist councillor

Some 200 people attended the funeral of Jimmy Parry on 10 January, 2014. Jimmy, brother of Bob Parry MP, was a committed socialist

Socialist Party review

spotFilm review: 12 Years a Slave

In Steve McQueen’s film, based on the story of Solomon Nothup’s captivity, the barbarism of slavery is clear

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