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Socialist Party news and analysis
No such thing as a ‘free’ school: Cameron’s election campaign promises that the Tories will open hundreds of new ‘free schools’. But when did the Tories ever give away anything free, except to their friends in big business?
Lewisham teachers striking against academisation, March 2015
Super-rich get richer… MPs to get huge pay rise: While working class people struggle to make ends meet, the wealthy continue to get increasingly rich. The combined wealth of the world’s 1,826 billionaires has reached $7.05 trillion
How can Russell Brand’s call for revolution be achieved?
Everywhere you go, if there is struggle against austerity you’ll probably find people talking about Russell Brand. His book Revolution describes itself as “the beginning of a conversation that will change the world”
Economy: Reality doesn’t match Tory rhetoric
Austerity works – unemployment is falling and wages are rising: that is the pre-election mantra of the Tory Party. Of course, if it were true, millions of workers would be breathing a sigh of relief
Women in the frontline of fighting austerity cuts
The United Nations says it will take 70 years to close the wage gap between women and men. However, a UK government spokesperson used International Women’s Day to claim the gender pay gap in Britain was “at its lowest ever”
Spied on by the state and bosses
Socialist Party workplace news
Camden caterers demand Living Wage
The Labour-led Camden council decided on 2 March not to implement the Camden school caterers’ claim for the London Living Wage
Camden caterers demand the Living Wage, March 2015, photo by Reel News
Northern Ireland public sector general strike
A Northern Ireland public sector general strike, organised by Nipsa and other trade unions, is taking place on 13 March in opposition to austerity
NHS workers reluctantly accept 1% pay rise
Unison health members in NHS England have returned a two-to-one acceptance of a 1% pay rise for 2015-16 on a low ballot turnout
Dundee hospital strike after 96% ‘yes’ vote
Porters at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee have begun a campaign of industrial action to win back a massive underpayment going back over a decade
Oppose tax office’s ‘company union’
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Stop the destruction of our communities: The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition is standing over 100 candidates in the 2015 general election in opposition to all cuts and privatisation
Jacqui Berry speaking at the 2013 NSSN conference, photo Senan
Get ready for a revamp of the Socialist!
Fortnight of action on sales and fighting fund: In the next few weeks, the Socialist is moving to a new format with an exciting new design. To celebrate, we’re organising a fortnight of action
Socialist Students leads in Leeds
Socialist Students members organised a march for free education of around 150 in Leeds on 6 March. Students and young workers were attracted from across Yorkshire
Socialist Party general election appeal 2015
As the main parties squabble over election debates, Socialist Party members and TUSC supporters are building a real alternative to their sterile arguments over what to cut and in what order
Socialist Party comments and reviews
“It wasn’t easy, but I wanted to beat Thatcher”
30 years since the end of the miners’ strike: Neal Davis, member of Mansfield Socialist Party, spoke to former Shirebrook (north Derbyshire) miner Ronnie Rodgers
Former striking miners retrace their steps, 30 years to the day since they marched back to Shireoaks colliery, near Worksop. Former Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Notts miners and supporters marked the anniversary., photo J Dale
