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Socialist Party news and analysis
Ed Miliband has pledged that Labour will increase the minimum wage to £8 an hour. But you’ll have to wait till 2020!
Demonstrating outside Labour’s national conference in Manchester to demand a £10 minimum wage, photo Hugh Caffrey
Labour to continue austerity offensive
The Labour Party conference in Manchester was the last before the general election with Labour setting out its policies for a future government
Climate change: Summit for nothing
Ahead of the United Nations summit, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in 161 countries to demand immediate action on climate change
Academies lead to nepotism and profit making
The Socialist (issue 782) previously reported on a campaign to stop Rushey Mead in Leicester becoming an academy
Scottish referendum
1.6 million vote Yes in revolt against austerity
In the teeth of a ferocious campaign from the British capitalist establishment the independence campaign in Scotland won the support of more than 1.6 million people, overwhelmingly from the working class, securing 45%, writes Philip Stott Secretary, Socialist Party Scotland.
Scotland Referendum, photo SP Scotland
After Scotland revolt: all capitalist parties in crisis
Scotland Poll: Electric mood among YES supporters
International socialist news and analysis
Millions on streets for Catalan independence
On 11 September an estimated 1.8 million people took to the streets of Barcelona in the annual demonstration for Catalan independence, writes Rob MacDonald, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Spain).
Sweden: Conservatives collapse, extreme-right gains
The elections in Sweden on 14 September were a catastrophe for the ruling right-wing alliance of four parties that have formed the government since 2006 (Moderates, Christian Democrats, Liberal Party and Centre Party), writes Per Olsson Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).
Socialist Party workplace news
Support the October pay walkouts: The image of a homeless person rummaging through a bin for food is sadly quite common. But now many low paid workers are also being forced into that situation, writes Jean Thorpe, Nottingham City Unison rep, personal capacity.
Hackney council workers striking for better pay on 10 July 2014, photo Paul Mattsson
Health workers in Unison have voted by 68% for full strike action over pay, with 88% in favour of action short of a strike. We are striking for our patients and their carers, as well as ourselves
College lecturers join 14 October strike
Care UK: ‘We’ll fight them all the way’
Croydon leisure centre strike for decent wages
West Midlands fire engine cuts
Hereford Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is faced by management plans to reduce the number of fire engines in the county
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Tenants threatened by ‘feudal lord’
Tenants on the New Era estate in Hackney are faced by an unholy alliance of predatory property speculation
Russel Brand is actively supporting the campaign to defend New Era estate tenants, photo Paul Mattsson
Round up: Socialist Students at the freshers fairs
Socialist Party comments and reviews
The struggle for decent social care – a personal account
Much of the social care system has been sold off to the private sector. Ann Parkes describes her desperate struggle to gain decent care for her husband
TUSC NHS ‘credit card’: The Health & Social Care Act Means: NHS Privatisation
On 14 September I was told I had until midnight to donate to Labour – and win a front row seat for Miliband’s speech at Labour Party conference!
