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Socialist Party news and analysis
Unite the fightback: Coordinated strikes needed
“We never dreamt of being on a picket line,” said a junior doctor addressing a meeting of trade unionists after an exhausting day of strike activities
United workers’ action can save NHS
Water firms’ £1.2bn in profit off human need
Political policing: Met spy targeted socialists
Trident debate: socialist programme needed
Housing crisis reaches level of 1960s
Imagine that you live in a terraced house on a street that has, at one end, an airport and, at the other, a large factory, writes Bob Severn, private tenant, Birmingham.
Civil service: £1bn on consultants
A National Audit Office report contains further proof that austerity is working out fine for the bosses, writes Dave Semple
Outrageous attacks on Corbyn for ‘sexism’
Socialist history
1986 Wapping strike – Defeat of the print unions
Workers’ struggle undermined by bankrupt union leadership: Although it was a battle fought a generation ago, its lessons are just as relevant for our movement today
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
People’s Budget meeting success
A buzzing meeting voted to oppose cuts to council services
Carmarthenshire Unison campaigns against council cuts
Carmarthenshire County Unison members lobbied the Plaid-led council on 12 January along with other campaigners such as Save Our Parks and Playgrounds
Unite the Union local government committee votes for no-cuts budgets
The national committee for local government (Nisc) of Unite the Union has called on Labour councils to set ‘no-cuts’ budgets
Preparing a no-cuts people’s budget
The new TUSC briefing pack on preparing a ‘people’s budget’ is unquestionably the most important document available for all those who genuinely wish to fight against local government cuts
Momentum and democracy in Hackney and beyond
In Hackney, around 50 people – from left organisations, the Labour Party and some individuals – attended the first two meetings of the local Momentum group
Angry Labour meeting puts councillors under fire
My friend phoned me recently to say that he’d been to a Labour Party constituency meeting. There were about 200 people there.
Gateshead carers oppose respite centre closures
For years Gateshead’s Labour councillors have boasted they would always protect frontline services for the most vulnerable, writes Elaine Brunskill
Celebrating Eleanor Marx’s birthday
Socialist Party workplace news
Nationalise Tata to save steel jobs!
Wales is now feeling the wind of the ongoing butchering of jobs from Tata Steel UK
Tube workers to strike again to defend jobs and conditions
Members of LU unions the RMT, Aslef and TSSA will take strike action on 26-27 January and again on 16-17 February and 18-19 February
Reinstatement victory for John Vasey
When I was dismissed over the issue of not completing my delivery I was taken by surprise, writes John Vasey
Shop workers lobby council against Sunday opening
On 13 January, a deputation from the Leeds private trades branch of the shop workers’ union Usdaw lobbied Leeds City Council
Prison cuts: On 14 January, prison officers’ union the POA held a special delegate conference in Daventry called for by the Wormwood Scrubs branch
International socialist news and analysis
USA: Fight the billionaire class!
An edited version of Seattle socialist councillor Kshama Sawant’s alternative ‘State of the Union’ speech, following Barack Obama’s address to Congress.
China: Financial turmoil spreads fear across global markets
Global financial markets started 2016 with a bang! A reprise of last summer’s chaotic falls on China’s stock markets triggered panic selling of shares, commodities and currencies around the world
Northern Ireland: Defy anti-abortion laws
Campaign group Fight4Equality has described the prosecution of a young women for accessing abortion pills as “ludicrous”
Socialist Party comments and reviews
Cologne sex attacks show need to fight sexism and racism: An article in the last Socialist responded to the mass and seemingly coordinated sexual assaults on women in Cologne