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Socialist Party news and analysis
New Era estate tenants march, 8.11.14, photo Paul Mattsson
Oppose the ‘logic of capitalism’: Election polls continue to show Labour and the Tories neck and neck. This is an indictment of Labour: After five years of the most vicious attacks on the working class, they cannot decisively pull ahead of the Tory toffs
NHS is collapsing under a mountain of PFI debt
Low pay: Stop subsidising the bosses
Low-paid workers, typically employed in fast-food outlets and high street shops, have been the focus of trade unions and activists in the global day of action on 15 April
Public sector wage restraint – myth and reality
In 2012 Policy Exchange, the Tories favourite think tank, produced a paper – ‘Local pay, local growth’ – which argued that holding down public sector wages and pensions and bringing them into line with ‘equivalent’ jobs in the private sector would save £6.3 billion a year.
International socialist news and analysis
Yemen: Brutal onslaught on country’s poor
Over 500 people in Yemen were killed and terrible devastation, injuries, trauma and displacement inflicted in the first two weeks of Saudi Arabia led air strikes
France: One-day strike against austerity
US: Kshama Sawant on Democracy Now
Canada: first national meeting
Elections 2015
100% against austerity? Vote TUSC
“This is a rich country, the fifth richest on the planet. It’s just that the wealth is in the wrong hands – in the hands of a few millionaires and billionaires. TUSC is the only unashamedly socialist party in these elections.”
Dave Nellist with other TUSC candidates at the manifesto launch in London’s Canary Wharf, photo Paul Mattsson
Fighting local government cuts
We need a £10 an hour minimum wage
Rail worker and RMT transport union member Ted Woodley is standing for TUSC in the Birmingham Erdington seat
‘Liverpool 47’ councillors in TUSC challenge
This year’s TUSC parliamentary and local election challenge in Liverpool will be spearheaded by former members of the 1983-87 Labour Council who defied Margaret Thatcher’s government, built 5,000 homes and created thousands of jobs and apprenticeships in the city
Warrington Labour’s ‘time limit on democracy’
‘The largest party you’ve never heard of’
The radio this morning keeps talking about the seven largest parties contesting seats in Parliament. There’s one party missing from that list – TUSC
Socialist Party workplace news
Glasgow and Dundee: All-out strikes demand fair pay
One hundred and seventeen Dundee hospital porters and 70 local government workers in Glasgow are on strike in separate but similar disputes for fair pay and recognition for the job that they do
Empty chairs at the Glasgow Homlessness workers’ negotiating table
Glasgow strikers: ‘We’re all in it to win it!’
Striking Glasgow homelessness caseworkers spoke to the Socialist
Bromley council workers show how to fight Tories
Unite members working at Bromley council have begun a fight to defend public services from privatisation, oppose cuts to pay and conditions and defend the right of workers to be organised in a trade union
Lift workers strike over ‘spy in the cab’
Unison health backs £10 an hour call
Unison health conference has backed a motion from Mid Yorkshire branch calling for a £10 an hour minimum wage
PCS: Defending check-off in DWP
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Putting socialism back in LGBT politics
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) is once again on the frontline of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) politics, writes Pat Chadwick
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition has been granted its first ever election broadcast, giving a fantastic opportunity to get out and explain the details of our alternative to austerity
“Too little, too late” could sum up the Labour Party manifesto, writes Naomi Byron, Socialist Party finance team
Readers’ comments and reviews
My life as a day centre worker
A Cardiff day care worker, and member of Unison, explains the demands of their important job, against a background of austerity cuts
Iain Dalton reviews Gods of Gold by Chris Nickson
Standing in line, hoping for work
Hoping to get some work, I recently joined 200 other people queuing before 5.30am at Flower World in Derby
Artist and Socialist Party member Peter Robson has been commissioned by Bradford Cathedral’s arts space (which is funded by the arts council) to provide paintings at an exhibition in May 2016