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Socialist Party news and analysis
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
Huge anger at inquest verdict on killing of Mark Duggan
Pensioners 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
Gove 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
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
Ariel 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
Seattle: ’15 Now’ minimum wage campaign launched
Socialist Party workplace news
RMT 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
Teachers 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
The underbelly of prison privatisation
Unison: 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
Support 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
Socialist Party youth and students
Officials from bakers’ union BFAWU recently held a ‘fast food forum’ with campaigners from groups including Youth Fight for Jobs
Pupils chase hated Gove around their school
More attacks on further education funding
University 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
Exploratory drillers told to “Frack Off”
Over 500 trade unionists and environmental campaigners demonstrated against fracking on Barton Moss in Salford
“I’ll be voting for the trade unionists”
Obituary: 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
In Steve McQueen’s film, based on the story of Solomon Nothup’s captivity, the barbarism of slavery is clear